--- On Fri, 5/14/10, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> The GPL ensures that once software has entered the commons > (and therefore > available for all), it can never be removed from the > commons. The MIT > licence does not. Now, you might argue that in practice > once software is > released under an MIT licence, it is unlikely to ever > disappear from the > commons. Well, perhaps, but if so, that's despite and not > because of the > licence. Several years ago I released a C++ library under the Boost license. I put it up on a small free server. Later my hard drive crashed, both my backup copies were corrupted, and when I went to retrieve it from the site I found it no longer existed. I am recreating the code, and it will be MUCH better this time, and it is on three web sites, but are you telling me that of I have used the GPL instead of Boost I would not have had this problem? I use the Boost Libraries (http://www.boost.org/) in most of my code. Do you believe they are likely to disappear because they are not covered by the GPL? -EdK Ed Keith e_...@yahoo.com Blog: edkeith.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
