Is BSD, More “Free” than Linux?

  • maxamillion@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    There’s a lot of nuance there. I assume you mean BSD License vs GPLv2 … technically yes because you can literally do whatever you want with BSD License code BUT it doesn’t protect freedom either so kind of no.

  • s_s@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    First off I’d like to point out you are asking to compare a family of distributions to a kernel. Not quite a 1-to-1 comparison.

    Sustinctly: BSD licenses are more permissable for developers, GPL licenses (aka Linux) are better at preseving freedoms past developers have handed down to us.

    As a non-developer end user, both are about the same, although because of the nature of the GPL, you can find a wider bredth of free software for it in 2023.

    • aport@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      With permissive licensing, freedom applies to the user as they are free do to whatever they like even if that means making the software non-free.

      With copyleft, freedom applies to the software and restrictions are placed on the user so the software’s freedom is upheld.