On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Agreed, but the problem is that if someone converted Peter's work to run > under SMSQ/e and it does involve changes to the operating system. Why? Because > the GPL says that any future changes must also be released under the GPL > licence terms (or so I understand). Which touches on the biggest problem for the GPL and SMSQ/E. Under the current arrangement there is a single publisher, who can enforce some modicum of quality assurance and consistency/compatibility. Under a GPL license, anyone can be a publisher and there is no way to force compatibility for different versions, or prevent code forks that would ultimately be disruptive in an already small community. I was pro-GPL earlier, but now I see the license in operation, I can see what it is trying to protect. Dave
