Scott Klement wrote: >Everybuddy and VirtualDub are both GPLed packages. You seem to be >implying that they would've been safe against the problems they >encountered if they'd used the GPL -- but the fact is, they DID use the >GPL. > >In fact, in both of these cases, they were lucky. If someone took the >code for tn5250, and created a proprietary software from it, what are the >odds that we'd ever find out about it? If you removed the comments, >changed a few variable names, and ran it through a code beautifier, >there'd be no hope of us ever discovering that the code was stolen. > >Sure, using a license like the GPL makes this illegal. But that only >keeps the honest people from doing it! > >At least by releasing it under the BSD license, they'd have less incentive >to rip us off, and more incentive to cooperate... > >But, we could argue about licenses for the rest of the year and not get >anywhere. I'm okay with the LGPL or GPL or BSD or Apache or Mozilla >licenses... Just please don't tell me that all the code I've done on my >own time, without pay, frequently until 3:00 in the morning, needs to be >discarded because of some technicality in the GPL. > >Let's get the license fixed and move on. > >Does anyone know how to get in touch with Mr. Madore? I assume that he's >not reading these messages, since he hasn't said anything. > Please don't call me Mr. Madore, it makes me feel old. ;-) I don't have a problem with the LGPL vs GPL, especially since I'm not contributing code at the moment. Make sure my name stays in there though. I like to brag to the guy who works on our iSeries Linux port. ;-)
Mike _______________________________________________ This is the Linux 5250 Development Project (LINUX5250) mailing list To post a message email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/linux5250 or email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/linux5250.
