My only issue is that both you and Patrik have made your views more than known, and it's obvious you hate the GPL and GPL-style licenses with a vengance.. for whatever reason (which, as someone who has worked on commercial projects involving the GPL, are not - in my experiance and opinion - based in any substanciated fact whatsoever)..
So now you've made your point, constantly, how about we just take it for granted that for every email sent to the list saying 'the gpl is good because...' you and Patrik will reply with 'No! It's evil, RMS is satan, viral licensing, noone will use it, blah blah blah'....
The amount of traffic going in to my mailbox will half then :)
- Ender
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Brett Glass wrote:
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 15:30:59 -0700 From: Brett Glass brett@lariat.org To: Dimitrie O. Paun dimi@cs.toronto.edu, Sean Farley sean@farley.org Cc: Wine Development wine-devel@winehq.com Subject: RE: BSD, Gav, LGPL, Jeremy, and business
At 03:22 PM 2/15/2002, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
Sorry, the discussion stoped being civilized some time ago... :)
I've always done my best to be polite and civil throughout this discussion, while at the same time presenting the many strong arguments for my point of view. I've done a great deal of research on the effects of licensing. If I sometimes seem to be a lone voice (or nearly so) in the wilderness, it may be because I tend to catch trends earlier than most people. For example, I was warning people about Microsoft's monopolistic and anti-competitive tactics in the late 1980s, at which time many developers on BBSes and on CompuServe wanted to shout me down and ignore the problem. The xGPL is simply the new threat on the horizon.
I'm sorry if not all of the responses to my messages have been civil. I have no control over what other people write.
--Brett Glass