Not here to start a political debate, but to have discussion. I'm
anti-copyright, anti-IP. I personally like the MIT/BSD licenses more
than copyleft licenses like GPL because of my anti-copyright ideals.
Thoughts about this?
reddit / BSD

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X7spyWqcRY · 2017-09-26 19:13

Many people who support open-source efforts are against copyright.

I see copyleft as a strategy for combating copyright, rather than as a
moral end in itself. It uses copyright's mechanisms against itself.

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X7spyWqcRY · 2017-09-26 19:35

Sure. FYI this subreddit is more about the BSDs' technology than
licensing, which is why this topic is at 0. This kind of discussion
might be better suited for r/freesoftware.

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X7spyWqcRY · 2017-09-26 19:50

My impression of the BSD community is that they're a little tired of
the discussion and would rather focus on the code.

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X7spyWqcRY · 2017-09-26 20:19

I don't care about the license so much as the tech. I would rather
read BSD code than Linux code, and both are open-source.

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GodlessAristocrat · 2017-09-27 00:06

There's more to it that that, however.

Typically, the BSD's are systems engineered from the ground up to work
together; the user utilities work with the kernel, etc. They aren't
"BSD/Mach" or some such. They are engineered ecosystems with a
roadmap.

Linux is Tech Salad. It's a lot of unique and discrete pieces of stuff
that don't mix together easily, but taken as a whole it's quite nice
on the surface. Just don't look too closely at the dressing that holds
them together because it may contain chopped dead fish.