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Old Sep 7th, 2006, 5:46 AM   #13
_James_
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Originally Posted by Arevos
The BSD License allows others to integrate the code in closed source projects. The GPL forbids this. Thus, the GPL could be seen as a license that allows the author to retain more rights.

However, the GPL nor the BSD License will prevent others from selling your software.
That is exactly what I meant.

I personally dont want my work integrated into a closed source project. I dont mind if someone sells my software but they still have to provide the source. The university I attend has lots a java libraries that they have written and they are all released under the GPL. Obviously if I use one of those libraries in my program it does not have to be released under the GPL, but if I copy some of the code from the GPLed libraries into my program then it would have be be released under the GPL.
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