Dr. Hawkins wrote:
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Dr. Hawkins wrote:
FWIW, the inventor of the GPL prefers "inherit" rather than "infect", since
the GPL is a choice authors can make and "infect" has negative connotations
that make that choice sound like an accident.
An inheritance an also be disclaimed . . .
As the author of the seminal Economic paper on the subject, I chose
"viral" and "public" quite deliberately.
That's certainly your right, or anyone's right, regardless of any
academic credentials.
Just the same, terms like "viral" and "infect" are unnecessarily
provocative.
I also wouldn't release or contribute any code to anything under GPL3
(I have under GP2). The patent gotchas are just to risky.
What are your patent concerns?
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for Desktop, Mobile, and Web
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