The primary reason the BSD folks don't like the GPL is because it
doesn't allow you to use GPL code and other licence code in one
binary.
For sure I wouldn't like to give up all the things in my daily
toolchain that are under some University-grown copyright, Xerox PARC
copyright and whatnot. You can't even mix Modzilla code and GPL
code. How much worse can it get, given their similar intentions?
> P.S. And for us Linux developers, we should take heart knowing that as
> bad as some of our internal disagreements have gotten, I don't think our
> worse disagreements have ever gotten as bad as the worst of the
> internecine BSD conflicts.
That may be true, but as I said no excuse to keep the kernel source
without a version control system where people can see the history and
log messages for changes. And the amount of code one person can
maintain is limited, no matter how capable the person is.
Martin
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