Public Domain Python

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breiter at usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (Bernhard Reiter) writes:

> Grant Griffin <g2 at seebelow.org> writes:
> > For example, imagine how much better the world would be if Linux were
> > "truly free" instead of perpetually encumbered by that whole nutty
> > copyleft ball-and-chain thing.  Now wouldn't the world be a better
> > place?
> 
> No. Linus himself said that putting Linux under GPL was the decisive
> breakthrough for the project.

Careful there.  That needs to be taken in context.  The original
license for Linux did not allow commercial redistribution at all, and
that is what tended to hold it back in a sort of hobbyists' ghetto.
It's not so much that the GPL was particularly wonderful, but that the
earlier license was overly restrictive.