At 05:44 PM 2/9/2002, J.Brown (Ender/Amigo) wrote:
Sorry, let me clarify that point... the major work that was lost was done by a COMMUNITY project, not one of ID's in-house ones. His point is that as the xGPL forces the release of source code with any binaries, so any valuable work like this won't be lost to the community.
In that case, it seems to me that his remarks are a complete non sequitur. The source code of "community" projects that license their work under the MIT X or BSD license is every bit as publicly available as that of projects that use the GPL.
In fact, the GPL would actually reduce the likelihood of recovering the code from someone's box, because commercial programmers such as myself won't look at it or download it.
--Brett