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  From: Angus Wallace <angus.wallace@flinders.edu.au>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 13:39:16 +0930

Re: bsd- easier than you think

Yup. My thoughts also.

As far as I'm concerned, both BSD and GPL are good licences. Non-free 
software distributed without sources is 'bad'. If only BSD and GPL 
existed, then either would be fine with me, but because GPL makes it 
more difficult to release 'closed' software I prefer GPL to BSD.

Its not about righteousness, kudos, or reputation, but is instead about 
encouraging an environment where ideas are freely shared.

Neither BSD or GPL are against selling software, but both seem to be 
more about charging for a *service* than a *product*. To me, this makes 
more sense for software anyway.

What is interesting, is that I feel that all this is somehow different 
for music. I'm a muso, and would probably consider releasing original 
music under copyleft (distribute, but don't sell without permission). 
[or maybe I wouldn't. If I do either I'll let you know  ;-] I guess this 
is somewhat hypocritical, and would be interested to hear others' 
thoughts...

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