Thread: The future of your Nokia Windows phone
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exo is offline exo
2011-03-03 , 00:22
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Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
"Restrictive" and "OSS" do not belong in the same sentence. Anyone who tells you they do, doesn't understand them.
Well then why is the GPL considered an OSS license then? Can you use GPL code in any way that you want? No, it places *restrictions* on how you can use that code.

EDIT: And just so you don't try to dance around the definition of 'restrictive' and to provide proof that you're wrong, have a look here, where the Open Source Initiative themselves refer to the GPLv2 as 'restrictive'.

http://ideas.opensource.org/wiki/help/license
In general permissive licenses tend to be compatible with other licenses and restrictive ones do not. For example it is easier to include code from the MIT license in other projects than it is to include code that is licensed under the GPL v2 or later.
Last edited by exo; 2011-03-03 at 00:30.