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To: antiRepublicrat
True, but he can't make it GPL...in the past you didn't have a problem with non-GPL OSS licenses.

No I simply said just because you claim you need open source you can't justify using the radical leftist Stallman's license, you could use something else less radical and more business friendly. But now it appears Stallman is going to taint other open source products, and without enforcing software patents there's nothing anyone can do to stop him.

34 posted on 10/10/2006 7:22:12 AM PDT by Golden Eagle (Buy American. While you still can.)
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To: Golden Eagle
you can't justify using the radical leftist Stallman's license

From a user perspective, the license needs no justification, because there is zero restriction on the use of GPL software. From a developer perspective, I respect the choice of the copyright holder. Personally, I have released my own software, but it wasn't under the GPL.

But now it appears Stallman is going to taint other open source products

Here's the magical part of the GPL, and of the like clauses in other OSS licenses. What would be cool is Stallman's ideological followers putting in thousands of man-hours improving their fork, only to have Mozilla re-incorporate those improvements into the main Mozilla-branded version under the GPL-like give-back clause of the MPL. Stallman might as well have handed the Mozilla foundation a bunch of cash.

Mozilla wouldn't have that ability under the BSD license. Stallman's own GPL,in that it inspired those terms of the MPL, is what is keeping him from "stealing" Firefox.

40 posted on 10/10/2006 7:35:40 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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