Well, there is what Miller calls the "Standard Improved BSD," or SIBSD, which is generally referred to as the Modified BSD license to differentiate from the "original BSD" license: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#SoftwareLicenses
The Modified BSD allows anyone to use the code in proprietary software.
But even with the GPL, the copyright holder can decide to sell
individual commercial licenses to a company to use the code in proprietary
software (The author of JUCE does this). There's a
video somewhere on the web of Richard Stallman being grilled about
about this practice, but his explanation of suggesting it to a company
to get them to release the code under the GPL in the first place
seems reasonable.
-Jonathan
From: Bernardo Barros bernardobarros2@gmail.com To: Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com Cc: Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at; pd-list@iem.at Sent: Sun, June 20, 2010 11:56:59 AM Subject: Re: [PD] cyclone license
The difference it seems is that BSD allows proprietary use of the software. Right??
2010/6/20 Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com
Ok, so "Standard Improved BSD," or "SIBSD" seems to be the answer to my question.
Thanks, Jonathan
From: Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at
To: Bernardo Barros bernardobarros2@gmail.com Cc: pd-list@iem.at Sent: Mon, June 14, 2010 11:02:14 AM Subject: Re: [PD] cyclone license
The core of Pd from MIller is BSD. He distributes it with some GPLv2 stuff in it. Pd-extended includes BSD, GPLv2 and GPLv3 code, so its GPLv3 as a whole pacakge.
.hc
On Jun 14, 2010, at 10:55 AM, Bernardo Barros wrote:
I though PD was GNU/PGL
On 14 June 2010 11:53, Ricardo Lameiro ricardolameiro@gmail.com wrote:
Bernardo, BSD licens also is free software. There are a lot of different free software license. not only GPL, and Puredta is not GPL.
2010/6/14 Bernardo Barros bernardobarros2@gmail.com
I think it *have to be* GPL (v.3), since PD is free software, doesn't it?
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
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