Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > [...] >> communities, and a look at the license distribution of registered >> projects on freshmeat. > > Ignorance rules the world. (So that smart ones can live better.)
Except that one can't license software by default. Licensing requires putting copyright notices into stuff, and including a copyright file. One can't license stuff while being ignorant of what one is doing. Of course, the ratio of people who would not be suited by other licenses in a degree that they would rather create the GPL (if it was not already there) than use anything else is slim. But that is similar with other choices: the ratio of people who would put an active fight up for democracy is quite smaller than those who appreciate its benefits. It would be illusionary to count every person licensing under the GPL as a potential hardline fighter for software freedom. But it is even more illusionary to think that for some reason, you are the only unappreciated person with intelligence in the universe, and everybody else must be a gibbering idiot. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss