| >In my mind, OSS is about simply getting credit for the work that
| you do, not
| >requiring people to either jump through hoops or give back their
| additions
| >or changes to my source code. I don't give a rats ass what
| people do with my
| >source code as long as they simply give me credit for my hard work.
|
| right. Thats the difference one philosophical difference between GPL and
| APL. GPL protects the code while APL protects the people. This
| results in a
| number of different things - one of which is frequency of forking. APL
| tends (from what I can see) to fork less often thou this may have a bit to
| do with institution (especially 2 codebases in one project approach)
How does APL protect the people ?.
I repeat - GPL/LGPL protects the code for the community that produced it.
Cheers!,
Micheal
