begin quoting David Brown as of Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 04:55:59PM -0800: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 01:35:56PM -0800, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > > >1) Copying (aka plagiarism) *by itself* doesn't really bother me that > >much, actually. It's copying without understanding that causes a problem. > >And, by the way, this is a problem in real-life, too. I have had to break > >junior engineers of that habit. > > I wish it was just junior engineers. I really shouldn't have to tell a > senior engineer that he really can't copy a piece of GPL code into our > proprietary product.
I've found that a lot of people who aren't terribly interested in the open-source community treat "public domain", "freeware", "shareware", and "open source" as synonyms. Some of them are astonished at the idea that they aren't synonyms, and a bit disbelieving. -- Tell your senior engineer to use BSD instead of GPL. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
