Over at the Meshed Insights blog, Simon Phipps writes about why the public domain falls short and more detailed licensing is needed in order to extend rights to a software community.
Yes, public domain may give you the rights you need. But in an open source project, it's not enough for you to determine you personally have the rights you need. In order to function, every user and contributor of the project needs prior confidence they can use, improve and share the code, regardless of their location or the use to which they put it. That confidence also has to extend to their colleagues, customers and community as well.
Source : The Universal Donor
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @02:35AM
it doesn't only matter if bsd stayed free. another unacceptable outcome is that leech ass corporations and devs will use your code to subjugate others when they make their version unfree.