Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
> > What is more free?  Something that takes measures to always be free or
> > something that is so free that even allows something to not be free
> > anymore?
>
> Something released under the MIT license is always free.

gcc evolution is guaranteed by requiring that all modifications and bug fixes
are too released under the same GPL, thus, free.  I suspect there's no gcc BSD
equivalent because good code in it would likely be a basis for much better
commercial equivalents, who wouldn't be required by the license to give away
modified code.

GPL'd software seems to evolve much faster than BSD software.  You may tell it's
because of GPL's damned "viral" behaviour, but it's exactly what guarantees the
continual perfecting of GPL'd code, since it can't be made non-free and
powering leeches.

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