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Re:Peak California by epistasis on Sunday March 10, 2019 @09:50PM (#19356087)
The difference between GPL and BSD-like, to me , is that GPL says "what's in it for me?" Whereas BSD-like is "here you go take this for free, I may or may not got anything back for giving you my contribution."
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Re:Peak California by sangnoir on Sunday March 10, 2019 @11:24PM (#19356421)
More like "What's in it for the (end) USER?" What better way is there for a developer to pay it forward than to pass on all the rights they got (freedom to modify and inspect the software) to the end-user?
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Re:Peak California by jimktrains2 on Monday March 11, 2019 @12:05AM (#19356579)
I don't ask anything from you for me in order to use my gpl software, I ask that you give the same rights and privileges you had to your users.

You don't even need to give me your contributions, just your users.

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