From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-07-10T09:34:35+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: GPL - was Re: My brief and torrid affair with Ruby.

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On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:07:35 +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
>�Austin, did you intend to say something? Or perhaps�you did and my
>braindead mail client stripped it.�All I got was a signed quote with
>nothing added.��I've seen this happen before, so if it's a
>problem�with my client, I want to know... 
Not your fault. I wrote a reply in vim, thought I had pasted it in,
and signed and sent the message ... which was an unpasted version.

Basically, I was saying that what you said was absolutely true -- and
that the GPL is *most* effective against other open source (or
"free") projects, more than commercial projects. After all, the
developers behind commercial projects will much more likely find a
licence that they can buy at a reasonable cost that does most of what
they need.
Copyleft (the viral part of the GPL) isn't a bad thing; it just isn't
appropriate to a lot of software, and it causes more trouble for
other open source/free projects than for commercial projects. IMO.

- -austin--
austin ziegler    * austin@halostatue.ca * Toronto, ON, Canada
software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2003.07.09
                                         * 20:30:49

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