[ANNOUNCE] Umbra role-playing game 0.2 pre-alpha

[s713221 at student.gu.edu.au]

s713221 at student.gu.edu.au wrote:
> 
> Mark 'Kamikaze' Hughes wrote:
> >
> > Fri, 20 Apr 2001 20:45:46 +0200 in
> > <mailman.987792402.21125.python-list at python.org>,
> > Kalle Svensson <kalle at gnupung.net> spake:
> > >Sez Mark 'Kamikaze' Hughes [regarding the GPL]:
> > >I think you've got the "virus" thing all wrong.  It doesn't force you to use
> > >the GPL for your programs unless they are derivative works of a program
> > >licensed under the GPL.
> >
> >   Or unless someone else makes changes to your code to integrate even a
> > teensy little bit of GPL-infected code, and then your code is diseased,
> > too.
> 
> Aren't you one of the guys who doesn't want to release your code because
> you're afraid people will run away with it? The way I see it, the GPL
> ensures that if you decide to release code as open source, it stays
> open. Just because it belongs to the open community, doesn't give others
> the right to 'pirate' it for commercial closed source applications.
> 
> Joal Heagney/AncientHart

PS: I should have added, just like if you decide not to release your
code as open source at a particular time, you have the right to make
that decision. It all comes down to respecting others wishes about their
intellectual property.