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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Simply for me:<br><br>does BSD license give me more freedom than GPL-License?<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 22:52:05 -0500<br>From: erikerik@gmail.com<br>To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org<br>Subject: Re: [tclug-list] A question about free software<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="ecxgmail_extra"><div class="ecxgmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:48 PM, paul g <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pj.world@hotmail.com" target="_blank">pj.world@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">So all this 'open source code' is off limits to being modified? Unless it's under a GNU license? </blockquote>
</div><div class="ecxgmail_extra"><br></div>Not necessarily. What RMS is playing a semantics game. The term "Open Source" is a non-specific term, describing software for which you can obtain the source code. That software may be GPL-licensed, in which case you can modify it, use it in your own code, etc., as long as you stick to the terms of the original GPL license. Other software may be under the BSD license, where you can modify it, use it in your own code, even if it's proprietary code, and the original license does not need to carry through to the derivative code.</div>
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