From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-07-11T16:56:31+09:00
Subject: Re: My brief and torrid affair with Ruby.

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 10:01:31AM +0900, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> I am arguing that the fact that 
> you have the choice not to GPL your code even after you have included GPL 
> code into your own is an important point.

But not without breaking the law, unless your code is something which you
keep to yourself and have no intention of distributing.

Being in contravention of the law is another state which is not worth
discussing, for I hope fairly obvious reasons. "Should I distribute my code
illegally and open myself up to lawsuits from the original program author,
possibly supported by bodies like the FSF?" I think not.

In any case, lawsuits aside, you would be violating the intent of the
original author, which was that you would *not* be able to release any code
which incorporates it without also carrying forward the GPL restrictions.

Regards,

Brian.