On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Robert de Bath wrote:
> On 1 Jul 2001, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> > RB> Tho I do agree that luit should be integrated into screen eventually.
> > Impossible for licensing reasons. I should hope that luit will get
> > into the XFree86 tree.
> Shame, I assume you're using code that has to stay under the MIT licence.
This GPLphobia is getting completely ridiculous. The very notion of "code
that has to stay under the MIT licence" is a contradiction in itself. Do
you guys out there ever actually read the licences that you make such a
fuzz about? Hats off to the Microsoft Psychological Warfare Project; the
new anti-GPL paranoia-amplification drugs they've administered to our
water supplies over the last three years actually work better than anyone
ever expected!
Of course you can contribute MIT licence code to GPL projects without any
problems whatsoever. Of course our code doesn't become GPLed by that.
You still can use it in your own commercial products afterwards and give
others the right to do so. Of course you as the author of GPL or MIT code
can give away the same program under any other possible licence, as you
please. You can even add LGPLed code to MIT-licences code without anything
bad happening to either.
The GPL is an absolutely fabulous idea, but since there is so much
unjustified phobia around it, I'd recommed to donate anything that you
produce related to support the use of UTF-8 under POSIX to the public
domain (as I did with all my font and other UCS things on my web pages).
This seems to maximise impact in other projects as it takes away the fuel
from any potential licence discussion.
Markus
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