From bob@RATTLESNAKE.COM Tue May 09 03:49:36 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2703 invoked from network); 9 May 2000 10:49:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 9 May 2000 10:49:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO megalith.rattlesnake.com) (140.186.114.245) by mta3 with SMTP; 9 May 2000 10:49:34 -0000 Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.102) for lojban@egroups.com; Tue, 9 May 2000 06:49:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 06:49:29 -0400 (EDT) To: rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca Cc: lojban@egroups.com In-reply-to: <200005090032.UAA22405@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> (message from Robin Lee Powell on Mon, 08 May 2000 20:32:47 -0400) Subject: Re: OT - programming logflash Re: [lojban] Logflash Reply-to: bob@rattlesnake.com References: <200005090032.UAA22405@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> From: "Robert J. Chassell" X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 2617 >> The GPL is viral in a very virulent and obnoxious way. Not true: it is a vacination. The GPL prevents someone else from taking your code, making a bug fix or enhancement and then preventing *you* from using that bug fix or enhancement. That's right, without the GPL, you can be forbidden from using a bug fix or enhancement to your own code. Of course, if you like to be prevented from using fixes or improvements to your own work, then go ahead, let yourself get ripped off. The people who find the GPL `virulent and obnoxious' are those who find it forbids them from stealing. Thieves hate good locks. Welcome to the world of US lawyers. (And unfortunately, in this regard, .ca is a signator to the same treaties as the US.) The GPL permits you and others to copy, study, modify, and redistribute code. It forbids you to forbid, and it forbids others from forbidding you or others to copy, study, modify, and redistribute. -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com How a copyright license shapes software technology: http://www.teak.cc/Shaping-speech.html