Picking a license

[Carl Banks]

On May 13, 10:59 pm, Steven D'Aprano <st... at REMOVE-THIS-
cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 May 2010 17:18:47 -0700, Carl Banks wrote:
> > The thing you GPL fanbois refuse to understand or accept is that, in the
> > real world, a person or company who doesn't want to open source their
> > "derivative work" will only rarely be forced to by the GPL. They'll work
> > around it instead, vast majority of the time.  They could:
>
> > 1. Derive their work from a project with a license that grants the user
> > more freedom
> > 2. Reimplment the functionality seperately (*cough* PySide)
>
> Yes. So what? In what possible way is this an argument against the GPL?

[snip a bunch of crap I don't care about]


It's not.  It's an argument that the GPL doesn't do much good.

Arguments against the GPL are found elsewhere in this thread, I don't
need to repeat them here.


Carl Banks