Re: [ql-users] GPL or not GPL, that is the question

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In a message dated 19/03/2004 23:16:57 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > 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. Here here....   I wonder what the pro-GPL camp's reaction would be if the licence had been implemented earlier (before the colour drivers release) and someone had said that they would only develop a QPC or Aurora version of the colour drivers and save themselves the hard work to implement it on the Q40/Q60 (plus the cost of having that hardware too).... -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services 35 Chantry Croft, Kinsley, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF9 5JH TEL: 01977 610509 Visit our website at URL:http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk Stuck with ordinary dial up internet connection ?? Read our review of internet accelerators and broadband at: URL: http://www.rwapadventures.com/Services/reviews.html