Dear Friends,
In the fews weeks I spoke to some of my friends about the GPL and to my horror I found that not all us (including me) understand the GPL in its complete form.
Perhaps, its due to lack of legal training or pure ignorance.The GPL in its many forms and applications behaves differently.Thank God, we have few lawyers within us,is it possible that anyone of
1) Act as a guru to provide a knowledge base like this.
2) Help build a forum to address the GPL issues
TIA
--arky
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found that not all us (including me) understand the GPL in its complete form
The GNU GPL is really an easy to understand license. Maybe if you pose an articulated question here, you might get a clued answer from this list.
due to lack of legal training or pure ignorance
The GNU GPL was `invented' by RMS with no formal legal training. You too can interpret it very easily. One need not be a lawyer to understand these things.
I have noticed legal experts struggling to get the concept of free software correctly. But they are very quick to notice the dangers of the terminology `open source'.
Please be patient and do read the archives.
Help build a forum to address the GPL issues
Is this not a forum enough?
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Raghavendra Bhat -
Rakesh 'arky' Ambati