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Re: [circle] GPL Violation - no I wont


From: David Irvine
Subject: Re: [circle] GPL Violation - no I wont
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:40:43 +0000

Does that mean like me (I am getting this way) you lean more towards the bsd licence as completely Open Source do what you want as opposed to closed proprietary  do nothing you want to gpl do anything you want as long as nobody commercialises it for any reason.

You see I feel theres got to be a middle ground between the GPL and closed licenses that works better.

Take my case in point - whether I am genius, know all about accounting practices swat analysis and business strategy management or just a lonely innovator looking to innovate. I find the GPL to effectively block this in my example.

I am in a quandary over it though as theres something very pure about gpl that I like and a lot of the proponents (as long as they can discuss without nasty mails and personal jabs) are exceptional coders.

Then you have the python license - would google, amazon et all use it if it were gpl, well perhaps but I am not so sure they would. I knly hope they give something back and especially to the Guido's of this world (maybe even give them jobs :-) , well done google).

It's a question that requires answers and my belief is GPL does not provide all the answers all the time. Real innovation will require commercialisation to an extent from time to time - but at the same time not closing stuff down to never be improved or open to public scrutiny !

Anyway I search for answers as always.

On the issue of using the code, I wont at all. As theres even one developer who would not like it (and it's their  right to do so without question in this instance) I will use the Khashmir code base as a working example or even include it and hopefully help that project.

So many thanks guys and I really hope you keep this project working, it looks very good and loads of work, getting twisted and refactored would be great and I hope you do,

All the very best from bonnie Scotland
David

On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 15:52 -0800, address@hidden wrote:
I love discussions like this one.  They remind me of the reasons that I am
a Free Software advocate.  They re-affirm that there is a fundamental
difference between FS and OS.


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