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The GPL allows no cooperation.

Author:Brett Glass
Posted:8/25/2000; 10:22:06 AM
Topic:A softer GPL?
Msg #:20215 (In response to 20114)
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The GPL is the "roach motel" of licenses: code checks in, but it does not check out.

Yes, you can attempt to contribute code to a GPLed project under the MIT X License, and they may even accept it. But the product of that project will still become a weapon against developers' livelihood, and developers still will not be able to profit from their improvements to it.

Oh, and if it's a "GNU" project, the FSF will insist that you sign over all rights to the code before you accept it. That's correct: while Stallman condemns "hoarding" of code, he does it himself.

--Brett Glass

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