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Re:Evil, or why Douglas Crockford is harmful to Free Software by rmc on Friday November 09, 2012 @07:14AM (#4762431)
"Free" for the FSF does not mean "compatible with GPL".

Lots of GPL in-compatible licences are "Free" according to the FSF. Here's a whole list of "GPL-Incompatible Free Software Licenses": http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibl... Some notable ones: Apache Licence, BSD licence, etc.

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Re:Evil, or why Douglas Crockford is harmful to Free Software by tspiteri on Friday November 09, 2012 @10:41AM (#4763268)
The BSD licence is not GPL-incompatible. It is the original BSD licence which is GPL-incompatible, because it has an advertising clause requiring all advertising material for a product to include a note for each contributor under that license.
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