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Re: calling the GPL a "poison pill"
Author: Dennis Peterson Posted: 8/31/2000; 6:26:47 AM Topic: scriptingNews outline for 8/28/2000 Msg #: 20569 (In response to 20543) Prev/Next: 20568 / 20570
Just read Brett Glass's Benefits of Truly Free Licensing. Gave me food for thought. I can't agree with him that the GPL is unethical, but he has a good point that if you want something to be a standard, a license with no restrictions is the way to go. Worked for TCP/IP, HTTP...and people do seem to keep contributing source to Apache, even though it's BSD-licensed.
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- Re: calling the GPL a "poison pill", Mark A. Hershberger, 8/31/2000; 6:20:41 PM
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