Re: Linus about GPL x BSD(long)
"Dimitrie O. Paun" <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Jul 2002 16:19:48 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.emulators.wine.license |
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| Organization | DSSD Software Inc. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On July 19, 2002 04:14 pm, Brett Glass wrote: > To poison a public resource *is* evil. And this is were your misconception lies: (L)GPL code is not public domain. The authors chose a license, just like the comercial developers have. In many respects, the (L)GPL license is more liberal than the comercial one, so WTF is your problem? Do you consider it "public" because you can see the code? But you can also see WineX code, and you don't seem to consider _that_ public! What makes (L)GPL code more pulbic than WineX code (for example)? -- Dimi.