Why do I release FontForge with the BSD license and not GPL?
I just don’t like GPL. It’s partly prejudice, partly real. I don’t like forcing restrictions on people. I’m giving away fontforge, so I do. The BSD license says “Don’t sue me, and include my copyright notice if you use my code” and that’s all I care about. Perhaps I am naif, but I don’t believe that anyone is going to start selling fontforge. Why would they? It makes no sense for someone to try to sell what I give away freely. If they add functionality to fontforge, then that’s a different matter, but in a sense they aren’t charging for fontforge, they are charging for the code they have added to it. It would be annoying if someone did that, a bit rude in my eyes, but I’m not going to say “no”. Now someone might take a small piece of fontforge and use it in something else. That doesn’t bother me. I know that some of my OpenType code has been snagged by some TeX packages. And I have snagged code for generating checksums from some other packages. I rather like helping other people. And p
