Calm down dude or you might end up here: http://xkcd.com/386/
Seriously though I hear your call of bollocks. Sounds like GPL works for you and thats great, but until I see clear legal fact stating it works generally then I will refrain from agreeing. My primary concern is with linked libs. Thanks, Simon On Apr 13, 2012 12:26 AM, "Dave Lane" <[email protected]> wrote: > Simon, > > On 13/04/12 11:07, Simon Holywell wrote: > > Also at a higher level. It is GPL licensed which kinda rules out serious > > commercial use - see copyleft. > > It seems to have become rather trendy to take that position. It is, > however, wrong, and quite counter productive. > > What you are implicitly stating is that businesses only gain value from > open source software where they have the ability to convert the work of > open source developers into closed proprietary software. And that, of > course, is utter bollocks. > > I suggest you talk to companies like Redhat, Instagram, Github, Acquia, > Google, HP, Yahoo!, Facebook, etc. about the commercial non-viability of > the GPL, I'm sure they'll be interested to hear your perspective. > > Regards, > > Dave > > -- > Dave Lane, Egressive Ltd [email protected] m +64212298147 p +6439633733 > http://egressive.com Free/OpenSourceSoftware: because to share is human > Drupal powers communities: http://drupal.org Use Open Standards: w3.org > Software Patents kill innovation > > -- > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] > -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
