Hi,
On 01/05/2011 03:27 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
This is not to say that the other people copying/forking /never/ submit back -- it does happen -- with GPL tho' making it a legal obligation ensures that it always happens.
not necessarily - a lot of people just do not touch GPL code - they prefer to contribute code to projects with a more free license.
define 'lot'. Judging by pure numbers /maybe/ GPL projects are lesser than those licensed under a <sarcasm>more free</sarcasm> license but judging by the *rate* of improvement GPL projects tend to move much more faster (which proves what I said about the engineering suitability of the GPL too). -- Of course you have to compare apples to apples (eg: Linux to *BSD) not apples to oranges (eg: Python to Linux).
cheers, - steve