Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Re: closed/proprietary != commercial
Author: David McCusker Posted: 9/1/2000; 12:17:37 PM Topic: scriptingNews outline for 8/28/2000 Msg #: 20724 (In response to 20696) Prev/Next: 20723 / 20725
Ken MacLeod: A very common, and very incorrect, meme in this thread is that the GPL is "anti-commercial". It's not, it's anti-closed/proprietary.Yes, that's a good characterization. And I respect just how anti-closed/proprietary it really is -- very cleverly and admirably so.
I'm not really anti GPL myself. It's just an inconvenient cost to consider disclosing anything I do with otherwise freely available software. This extra cost makes the difference for me, since I avoid looking at GPL'd software for ideas. It's a simple expedient for routing around the nuisance of contaminating my research with obligations I had not intended.
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