Re: Mathworks-hosted GPL'd software

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Francesco Potortì <address@hidden> wrote:
> I stand correctd.  I had written:
>
>>It is a program released under the first and most
>>widespread free software license: the GPL.
>
> While first public release of GPL in February 1989 is in fact preceding
> BSD by four months, apparently the MIT licence dates back to september
> 1985, release date of X9.  Both the GPL and BSD had predecessors that
> were not however widely or publicly distributed, and about which I have
> no details.
>
> Thanks to Judd Storrs for pointing this out to me.
>

You should note, however, that the original 4-clause BSD license (with
the infamous advertising clause) is not recommended neither by FSF nor
OSI. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_license
The more modern flavors (such as FreeBSD) are younger.

regards

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RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek, PhD
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Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
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