On Wednesday 24 February 2010 14:50:02 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Wednesday 24 Feb 2010 1:30:10 pm jtd wrote:
some flame bait: http://jacobian.org/writing/gpl-questions/
When in doubt about the law, dont pull the trigger. If you do pull the trigger, make sure there are no witnesses. If there are witnesses make them accessories. And the best action always is to shoot yourself preferably in the head and blame everybody else if you survive.
In case of the GPL one thing is very clear, if you (or the client ) think that hiding under the rock is key to your business strategy dont use GPL / LGPL stuff.
But that is something very hard for the one trick codemonkeys to understand.
do you know who Jacob Kaplan-Moss is?
We aren't shooting the messenger. As Jacob pointed out in one of the posts, nobody is doubting his credentials, and there are a 100 reasons for the questions, however the questions are relevant only to someone who intends hiding under the rock or abetting in someway such behaviour. The conclusions dont change because of one's unique circumstances. Dont like gpl / doubt gpl then dont use gpl code. Else ask copyright holders for permission to hide under rock.
The "special case" of including gpl code in BSD (or freerer) code boils down to the same thing I said earlier - enabling someone else to hide under the rock. Something the GPL is specifically trying to block.