'GPL encumbrance problems'
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Jan 19 18:55:21 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 12:47, David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)
> It really does come down to a socialism vs. capitalism argument in the
> end. The pro [L]GPL crowd points to a claimed beneficial leveling
> affect by everyone having access to everything and the pro closed source
> crowd points out that they won't work unless they see a profit from
> their labor.
Yet, there are plenty of projects that are freely available and
open source without the GPL restrictions. Where do the *bsd, X,
apache, perl, mozilla, etc. licenses fall in your claimed dichotomy?
It is possible to share things without everyone following the
same manifesto.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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