On Jul 16, 2008, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You seem to be implying that the GPL is necessary for cooperation. > That is just not true.
Agreed. It's just better for everyone involved in the cooperation than permissive licenses. To understand why, have a look at http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/papers/free-software/BMind.pdf > Again, the fact that under certain restricted conditions it may be > possible to reuse the code does not eliminate the damage caused by the > restrictions that prevent many other uses. /me refers to the 1-month-ago thread on fedora-devel in which I thought it had become clear that GPL didn't impose any such restrictions, it was copyright law that did. I refuse to be dragged into another discussion about that with you. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
