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Originally Posted by Hard core Rikki
BSD-licenced code is freely reusable, and its known fact people/companies dont shy from doing it.
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Maybe this was lost in the thread, but I didn't mean to say that it's not common for open source software to be incorporated into proprietary commercial projects if the license allows for it. Although GPL wasn't mentioned in the the opening post I think the context made it pretty clear that it is what was being referred to, or another license that requires the source to remain open if incorporated or modified.
There shouldn't really be any discussion about whether or not others are doing it when this code was written with the intention of allowing it. There's nothing immoral, disrespectful, or "unclean" about it.
What I was saying is that I don't think companies are very highly routinely breaking license by copying and pasting restricted open source code like that under the GPL into proprietary software.
Good attempt to bring this back "on topic" too, Hard core Rikki, but didn't I already say the same thing in my first post? I feel like I'm being ignored :/ As far as I'm concerned the poster's question has been answered, if there's a requirement for the thread to remain on topic then it's probably just as well if no one posts here anymore.
@ruantec; If you want to stop talking about something then you're free to stop without having the last word. It's not at all fair for you to make broad accusations, offer no evidence, then keep repeating things like "it's true and I don't have to prove it because anyone who has common sense will know I'm right." If you don't like arguments forming around this then I think you should take better care not to say these sorts of things. Unfortunately I seem to be the only one who takes issue with this kind of mentality :/
Last edited by Exophase; June 5th, 2009 at 15:46..