Synaptics MIT license, again

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Josh Triplett wrote:

> Kean Johnston wrote:
>> If they write free software because they
>> want the maximum number of people possible to be able to use their
>> code, they can use the MIT license. If they write free software
>> because they want to promote the agenda of free software, they
>> can use the GNU licenses. Thats about the difference between them.
>
> Many people use the GPL despite not caring at all about "the agenda of free
> software".  Some people use it for purely practical reasons: they care more
> about having more patches that they can merge back into their project than
> they about people who use their software as part of a proprietary system.

( ..unstated in that comment is the fact the most of _those_ people are
not using an MIT X11 license ;-)

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