Picking a license

[Paul Boddie]

On 9 Mai, 09:05, Carl Banks <pavlovevide... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Bottom line is, GPL hurts everyone: the companies and open source
> community.  Unless you're one of a handful of projects with sufficient
> leverage, or are indeed a petty jealous person fighting a holy war,
> the GPL is a bad idea and everyone benefits from a more permissive
> licence.

Oh sure: the GPL hurts everyone, like all the companies who have made
quite a lot of money out of effectively making Linux the new
enterprise successor to Unix, plus all the companies and individuals
who have taken the sources and rolled their own distributions.

It's not worth my time picking through your "holy war" rhetoric when
you're throwing "facts" like these around. As is almost always the
case, the people who see the merit in copyleft-style licensing have
clearly given the idea a lot more thought than those who immediately
start throwing mud at Richard Stallman because people won't let them
use some software as if it originated in a (universally acknowledged)
public domain environment.

Paul

P.S. And the GPL isn't meant to further the cause of open source: it's
meant to further the Free Software cause, which is not at all the same
thing. Before you ridicule other people's positions, at least get your
terminology right.