On Thursday October 2 2008 10:10:22 Dan Armbrust wrote: > Hmm, maybe you should check out the text of that GPL license again, if > you don't think it is restricting you. > > There is a reason corporate America won't touch GPL when it comes to > writing other software. Heck, even other major opensource > organizations like Apache and Eclipse won't touch GPL. > > The Apache license gives you (the user) much more freedom than > anything GPL related, end of story. The tradeoff, of course, is less > control over the software by the developer. But hey, its the > developers choice. I just hope that at some point, his views will > restrict him into obscurity, and more developers will switch to a > license that does provide more freedom to the users. > > One really could make the argument that his views are very similar to > DRM, which I imagine most of us agree are bad. You can use these 1's > and 0's, but only if you do so in exactly the way that I tell you you > can.... Wrong. The GPL in no way restricts your use of the software. Never has, never will. The only conditions it imposes are are *distribution*. And if you don't like it, write your own. -p. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20081002/7ebb78e7/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20081002/7ebb78e7/attachment.pgp