Brett Glass wrote: > > At 08:57 PM 2/9/2002, Daniel Walker wrote: > > > From what I've been reading this is exactly why people want to switch > >to LGPL .. The LGPL is suppose to stop forks > > The LGPL does nothing to prevent forking. In fact, if the LGPL is adopted, > it will likely CAUSE a fork, in the same way that SSH, Inc. caused the > OpenSSH project to be started when it stopped licensing its code under > an open source license.
The case you cited was a *good* fork. > > If we want to be effective we can't be divided .. Instead of Linux vs. > >BSD it would be Wine vs. Wine .. > > I happen to agree. This is why adopting an FSF license would be a very bad > idea. No worse than Linux vs. BSD. And both the Linux and BSD crowds seem to be prospering. - Dan
