Fedora philosophy (was ATI video comes out of the closet)
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sun Sep 9 23:43:06 UTC 2007
Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> I think that the objectives for the GPL license and well known and have
>> been for quite some time.
>
> And I don't want to have that discussion again. But for developers who
> use the GPL but aren't GPL fanatics, I would ask them to consider a
> "FOSS exception" such as the one MySQL includes for the GPL version of
> their software
> (http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/foss-exception.html).
Better yet, dual-license it with something less restrictive than the GPL
so fanatics on either side can't restrict each other from using the
code. Larry Wall is a smart guy and figured this out for perl long ago,
and everyone has benefited from it.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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