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Preference for BSD License Over GPL in Open Source Dominance

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10mo ago· 5 min readenOpinion

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The article discusses the author's preference for using a BSD license over GPL, believing that open source will dominate and BSD/Apache implementations will prevail in the long run.

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I use a BSD license for all my code and contribute to BSD/Apache licensed software whenever I can.

I think opensource will eventually eat the world anyway, and I think when it does a BSD/Apache implementation of any given piece of software will emerge as the victor.

With evidence from history, I'm convinced of thes

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I wrote this in response to a comment thread on hackernews Defending GCC considered futile. There's been a megathread in the last week about whether Emacs should support LLVM, with Richard Stallman and now Eric Raymond joining the frey. Personally, I use

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