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Nice ad hominem attackNice ad hominem attackPosted Oct 25, 2004 3:39 UTC (Mon) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)In reply to: Nice ad hominem attack by BrucePerens Parent article: How to be a Free Software zealot (NewsForge) The problems with non-GPL-compatible free software are partly due to network effects. There is far more GPL code out there than code that is licensed under some GPL-incompatible license, so whenever someone makes the mistake of choosing a different license, they usually wind up dual-licensing, and that's exactly what Mozilla did. Objecting to licenses that impose restrictions beyond what the GPL imposes is often done on a purely pragmatic basis; it makes a software island of code that can't be used anywhere else. (This is also a problem with the FSF's GFDL license, but that's another discussion).
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