Christopher Dawkins cchd@felsted.essex.sch.uk wrote:
You really want to hurt a small British company designing and making remarkably innovative British goods (as far as this is possible nowadays) in competition with the overwhelming Microsoft market? This company needs your support, not your boycott.
If a small innovative British company wants to use the copyleft works of other people and companies to compete, then I applaud and encourage it. They must be prepared to honour the copyright licences for those works, though, else they are acting illegally.
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Conclusion: BSD is the only software that is really free in every sense of the word.
Now you want to redefine the term "free software"? Please don't.
Also, the original BSD licence had a nasty advertising clause. ITYM modBSD.