Re: Linus about GPL x BSD(long)

On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 02:14:31PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
> >That's right. Transgaming and Company have poisened the well. 
> 
> No, they have not. They've used a public resource, plus their own
> sweat, to create something good of their own. That's good. But they 
> haven't poisoned the public resource so that no one else can do the
> same, as the GPL fanatics have.
> 
> To poison a public resource *is* evil.

Well, the public resource is still here. Just check out ReWind or the WineHQ
tree before the license change. So I do not see why anything was polluted
here.

Care to exactly explain what you mean by your sentence and your definition
of the 'public' word ?

Anyway, what do you find wrong with this sentence :

'The LGPLed people used a public resource, plus their own sweat, to create
something good of their own. That's good. But they haven't poisoned the
public resource.'

                    Lionel

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