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0 pointsjkn9y ago0 comments

The BSD license is developer-centered. It's awesome for developers, mostly avoiding any licensing headache.

The GPL is user-centered. It's not designed to be nice to developers, but to protect the user's freedoms.

So to a first approximation I expect that developers that think more of developer's freedoms favor the BSD license, while developers that think more of user freedoms favor the GPL.

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daveguy9y ago

> The GPL is user-centered. It's not designed to be nice to developers, but to protect the user's freedoms. *

* Unless those users are developers.

I still haven't figured out the distancing and discouraging of LGPL. A lot of software doesn't have much distinction between user and programmer. GPL is one of the worst licenses for a library.

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