[openbox] license change

[Ben Jansens]

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 07:12:49PM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> # ben at orodu.net / 2003-05-19 12:09:21 -0400:
> > > BTW, what was the pressing reason to change the license?
> > 
> > Beacuse I don't agree with the BSD license, and because it limits linking
> > with other GPL libs, and using code from other GPL apps. Also because it
> > limits other GPL apps frmo benefitting from my code.
> 
>     One might say that it's not BSD license that's the limiting factor
>     here, and that by going for GPL you become part of the problem
>     instead of helping eliminate it.

Perhaps if the majority of free software was BSD licensed. The latest BSD
license is GPL compatible at least, the license which Openbox2 inherited was
not. And one might say just about anything.

Ben
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