Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Oct 1999 18:11:16 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Intel E1000 server gig-card? |
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Gerard Roudier wrote: > Each project have had _valuable_ reasons to choose their license. We must > try to respect that decision each time it is possible. > The BSD projects are very embarassed with softwares they are interested in > and that are refused to be moved to BSD style license by the original > authors. > Even if I respect any kind of author's decision, incorporating without > restraints BSD softwares into the Linux kernel for the reasons this does > not affect the GPLed softwares looks like unfairness to me.
If it really matters to you, you can always dual-license the code, and let downstream developers pick which license they find most suitable.
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