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#SoftwareLicensesThe 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.
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