Quoting Andy Sy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Ironically, in the case of GPL vs. MySQL commercial license, > GPL lacks one right that the commercial (you call it proprietary) > license grants you - the right to incorporate[1] MySQL source > code in one's product without releasing source code to said > product.
It is far more characteristic of proprietary licences to specifically _deny_ that right. > [1] Lawyerly pretensions aside, I find this a more generally > accurate term to use than the word 'linking'. The makes no sense: The two terms refer to different things. > It's not that they "fail to notice"[2] that proprietary licenses are > more restrictive than the GPL, it's just that they happen to realize > that the 'freedoms' the GPL grants are not as rose-colored and > strings-attached-free as initial impressions would have it. Oh, quick knocking straw men around, please. There's nobody here to impress. Licences are _legal documents_. Anyone who babbles about "rose-coloured" is ignoring fundamental reality, and needs to stop yammering and actually _read_ them. > MPL style is more reasonable - it just doesn't have the cachet of GPL > :-(. Above is nonsensical, as it presumes that general-purpose licences exist and that the aim is to find the most "reasonable" one. In fact, choice of licence is dictated by one's specific strategy. Different aims and strategies will dictate different licensing regimes. > I was never religiously against the GPL, I just think it has > been promoted out of proportion to its true flexibility as a tool > for promoting open-source ideals. Then, go find one of those people, and quit posting tiresomely question-begging, insultingly simplistic polemics. > RM> Anyhow, we're done. Still. > > Sure. :-D Go away. Come back when you're read the licences and are prepared to think instead of just ranting, OK? You are wasting your time and mine. -- Cheers, A host is a host, from coast to coast. Rick Moen And nobody talks to a host that's close, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unless the host that isn't close is busy, hung, or dead. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
