Re: [Fresco-devel] Re: Cross-platformability

On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 12:49:56AM -0700, M. Evans wrote:
> 
> TH> Well, the discussion is pretty premature anyway:-)
> 
> In the meantime you might study various open-source projects
> that have been highly successful under more liberal licensing.  The
> entire Python and Eiffel languages for example, or Apache web
> server -- any number of things.  Apache is one of the killer apps
> that made Linux the success it is today.  And BSD got us better
> operating systems (the TCP/IP stuff in Windows, the unix stuff in new
> Macs).
> 
> There are also a number of projects that started under LGPL, but
> eventually learned from the mistake, and later liberalized
> (e.g. wxWindows, http://www.opensource.org/licenses/wxwindows.php ).
> 
> http://static.userland.com/userLandDiscussArchive/msg020034.html

*shrug* And many that have been highly successful under more Free
licensing.  Certainly both can work.  And Brett Glass is one of the
more outspoken GPL critics, so people interested should by all means
read him.  But perhaps this thread can end here?  It's not really on
topic anymore.

-- Nathaniel

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