Rjack <[email protected]> writes: > "As we were going over the scan results I noticed a very interesting > trend. The GPL licensed software tends to assimilate quite a bit of > BSD-style and public domain source code. By including that other > source code it ends up spreading like a cancer." > http://questonsecurity.blogspot.com/2009/04/gpl-license-is-like-cancer.html
Hm? The whole point of BSD-style and public domain source code (and what the proponents are proud about) is that it is _intended_ for assimilation into differently licensed software. For example, everybody and his brother seems to maintain his own TCP/IP stack derived from some original BSD code. If people don't _want_ to have code of theirs integrated into differently licensed code, they should use a copyleft style license or something even more restrictive. If people get _annoyed_ about more restrictive licensing, they need to add measures against it. And that lands them with copyleft. It's amusing that BSD-style software proponents get annoyed when anybody makes actual use of the liberties of the BSD license. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
