@Ashok, is it only those 3 lines below that differentiate the various GPLs? On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Ashok Hariharan <ashok@parliaments.info>wrote:
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:30 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
- What did not suffice in GPL that lead to the formation of OSS under GPL2/3?
Appreciate more input on this.
let me repeat: "evolution". different people have different interpretations for what "freedom" is, so they have come up with different open source licenses some of which are more restrictive , some more free ...
e.g. the bsd license (a popular "free" license ) lets you modify the source and distribute it as a binary, by letting you change even the distribution license
e.g. gpl v3 - closed a loophole in the gpl2 which allowed you to run modified open source software as a service over the web and not share the source.
e.g. lesser gpl (LGPL license), kinda like the gpl2 but it lets you "link" to the software using this license without having to also adopt the gpl.