Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 10:28:20 +0000
From: Jonathan Wakely <jwak...@redhat.com>
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| Nothing in any GNU licence prevents reading code.
Not explicitly, no. But if I read some code, and then write
something similar, how would I ever prove I had not copied?
If I did, even subconsciiusky, and distributed my code, it
would be required to be GNU licensed wouldn't it? That is
something I will never do. I give away code I write unrestricted
(free). Not encunbered ir restricted.
Hence, and especially here as the starting point was that I
might add code to the BSD realpath utility to make it more
like the coreutils version, and hence make it easier to
standardise, I simply cannot look at the GNU code or I would
not be able to distribute a modified BSD version under the
BSD licence.
It is the stupid GPL which leads to this, if it was a free use
licence we could just distribute each other's code, or binaries,
rather than all this duplication, and we'd all be much better off.
kre
