In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >but I don't understand the rationale >for MAKING THE LICENSE THAT WAY, why it demands the original >code become GNU ***and be USELESS for non-GNU projects without >making them GNU***. It's that last part in asterisks that I hate. The >distribution of said combined work should have NO BEARING on >ANY other works that have NO 3rd-party code in them but are based >on ORIGINAL code from the combined work!
The people who wrote the GNU licence wrote it to further their own goals, which are not the same as yours. I am at a loss as to why you think they should have written it in such as way as to help you achieve things they don't want to support. -- Richard _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
