At 04:35 28/10/00 -0700, you wrote:
>on 10/28/2000 4:06 PM, "marc fleury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Indeed if the Avalon guy puts jBoss code in his tree and "contains" our
work
>> in his work then yeah.. that needs to be GPL.
>
>Bingo. So, this is something that is a major problem for me.
and me - I am that guy ;)
>> This is the mutations I was talking about... but the ASF decides not
>> to mingle with 60% of the world's OSS codebase *deliberately*.
>
>I'm sorry, but where exactly do you get that 60% number from?
60% is complete and utter BS with respect to java. Perhaps in c or c++ ma
not with java.
>In my mind, OSS is about simply getting credit for the work that you do, not
>requiring people to either jump through hoops or give back their additions
>or changes to my source code. I don't give a rats ass what people do with my
>source code as long as they simply give me credit for my hard work.
right. Thats the difference one philosophical difference between GPL and
APL. GPL protects the code while APL protects the people. This results in a
number of different things - one of which is frequency of forking. APL
tends (from what I can see) to fork less often thou this may have a bit to
do with institution (especially 2 codebases in one project approach)
Cheers,
Pete
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