[sldev] Re: [PROTOCOL] Protocol Documentation

dirk husemann hud at zurich.ibm.com
Fri Oct 5 05:38:46 PDT 2007


Jason Giglio wrote:
> Callum Lerwick wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 16:42 -0500, Argent Stonecutter wrote:
>>> That is, there are licenses that create a problem for open  systems
>>> use, and ones that don't. The GPL happens to be one that does.
>>
>> Can you point to a concrete example of the GPL causing such a problem?
>
> Callum, the GPL is constantly causing problems for people that want to
> take GPL code, modify it, and keep the modifications secret, while
> still distributing the modified work.
>
> In other words, the GPL doing what it's supposed to do.  Some people
> have a problem with this concept, and they'll bring up any ridiculous
> argument they can to avoid coming out and saying their real problem
> with the GPL is that it prevents them from closing the code.
callum's point was about learning concepts and methods from GPL'd code,
not about copying-modifying GPL'd code.

    cheers
    dirk

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