From: "Michael T. Richter" Date: 2007-09-13T11:20:39+09:00 Subject: Re: IronRuby --=-4GC6X/kIxxQrM+ayijCe Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=-nRCf62BGKhl+6C6ivrzZ" --=-nRCf62BGKhl+6C6ivrzZ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2007-13-09 at 10:01 +0900, Phil wrote: > > And this is different from the viral portions of the GPL suite how, > > precisely? If I make a program with over a million lines of code=20 > > and add a hundred lines from a GPLed source, suddenly all of my=20 > > millions of lines of code are under the GPL.=20 > > Or is this different because it's Microsoft? > Actually, the old BSD license with attribution clause is a closer fit. Th= e > MS-PL doesn't require you to publish your code with the same license, as = the GPL does. Well, fair enough. The point I was trying to establish was that it's not unusual for licenses to say "we encompass any work you do" -- whether the "encompassing" involves attribution (old-style BSD or current MS-PL) or viral infection (GPL). The secondary point is that people really need to stop "MS is evil, therefore anything from MS is evil"-style reasoning. (And I say this as a person who switched permanently away from MS technologies in 2004.) --=20 Michael T. Richter (GoogleTalk: ttmrichter@gmail.com) Experts in advanced countries underestimate by a factor of two to four the ability of people in underdeveloped countries to do anything technical. (Charles P Issawi) --=-nRCf62BGKhl+6C6ivrzZ Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2007-13-09 at 10:01 +0900, Phil wrote: 
> And this is different from the viral portions =
of the GPL suite how,
> precisely?  If I make a program with over a mi=
llion lines of code 
> and add a hundred lines from a GPLed source, s=
uddenly all of my 
> millions of lines of code are under the GPL. <=
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> Or is this different because it's Microsoft?


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 the same license, as the GPL does.

Well, fair enough.  The point I was trying to establish was that it's = not unusual for licenses to say "we encompass any work you do" --= whether the "encompassing" involves attribution (old-style BSD o= r current MS-PL) or viral infection (GPL).  The secondary point is tha= t people really need to stop "MS is evil, therefore anything from MS i= s evil"-style reasoning.  (And I say this as a person who switche= d permanently away from MS technologies in 2004.)

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Michael T. Richter <ttmri= chter@gmail.com> (GoogleTalk: ttmrichter@gmail.com)
Experts in advanced countries underestimate by a factor of two to four t= he ability of people in underdeveloped countries to do anything technical. = (Charles P Issawi)
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