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Re: GPL is like a cancer
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David Kastrup |
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Re: GPL is like a cancer |
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Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:23:09 +0200 |
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Rjack <user@example.net> writes:
> "As we were going over the scan results I noticed a very interesting
> trend. The GPL licensed software tends to assimilate quite a bit of
> BSD-style and public domain source code. By including that other
> source code it ends up spreading like a cancer."
> http://questonsecurity.blogspot.com/2009/04/gpl-license-is-like-cancer.html
Hm? The whole point of BSD-style and public domain source code (and
what the proponents are proud about) is that it is _intended_ for
assimilation into differently licensed software. For example, everybody
and his brother seems to maintain his own TCP/IP stack derived from some
original BSD code.
If people don't _want_ to have code of theirs integrated into
differently licensed code, they should use a copyleft style license or
something even more restrictive.
If people get _annoyed_ about more restrictive licensing, they need to
add measures against it. And that lands them with copyleft.
It's amusing that BSD-style software proponents get annoyed when anybody
makes actual use of the liberties of the BSD license.
--
David Kastrup
- GPL is like a cancer, Rjack, 2009/04/07
- Re: GPL is like a cancer, ray, 2009/04/07
- Re: GPL is like a cancer, dr_nikolaus_klepp, 2009/04/07
- Re: GPL is like a cancer, Lusotec, 2009/04/08
- Re: GPL is like a cancer,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: GPL is like a cancer, Alexander Terekhov, 2009/04/14
- Re: GPL is like a cancer, Thufir Hawat, 2009/04/16
- Re: GPL is like a cancer, Rjack, 2009/04/16
- Re: GPL is like a cancer, Rahul Dhesi, 2009/04/17
- Re: GPL is like a cancer, Rjack, 2009/04/16
- Re: GPL is like a cancer, Alexander Terekhov, 2009/04/16
- Re: GPL is like a cancer, none of your buisiness, 2009/04/17
- Re: GPL is like a cancer, Rjack, 2009/04/16