RE: Linus about GPL x BSD(long)

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Francois Gouget wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Brett Glass wrote:
> 
> > That's right. Stallman and Company have poisoned the well. That's one 
> > of the things that's so nasty about the GPL.
> 
> Your analogy is flawed: it implies that no one can use the X11 code
> anymore which is incorrect.

You're right, someone could still use the old X11 version.  Of course, if 
this is good enough, why does the GPL demand not only modifications, but 
other code as well, be released under the GPL?

If one prefers the X11 license, it seems preferable to use an X11/LGPL/GPL 
triple license to discourage LGPL/GPL people from forking the code and 
making the fork incompatible with the X11 license.  (They can still do it, 
but it wouldn't be necessary to link with other LGPL or GPL code, so there 
would be less incentive to make a fork.)

Deven