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viral licensesviral licensesPosted Nov 21, 2003 16:48 UTC (Fri) by jake (editor, #205)Parent article: A new source of anti-GPL FUD I get so tired of hearing how the GPL is 'viral' as it is no more (or less) viral than any other source code license out there. As the SCO case shows, a source code vendor can make all sorts of wild claims regarding "derivative works" based on their code. In fact, if you have a source code license for propietary code, the license may not allow you to distribute derivative works *at all* which is certainly worse than requiring a source release for derivative works. In the end, it comes down to where you (or more likely some court) draw the line for derivative works. This is an area that the mainstream computer press completely ignores and/or fails to understand. We (FOSS advocates) need to get that message out. jake
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viral licenses Posted Nov 21, 2003 20:36 UTC (Fri) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link] Can you control the majority of the press ? yes?:- great ; no?:- the only way is Open Standards, specialy in the Desktop, and World Domination(tm);... i mean, its pretty obvious several times a week, every week, that or Linux/FOSS wins world domination, or there is a pretty good danger of it being stoped by dirty laws...And world domination in IT, is more a technical matter than a political one, so there Linux/FOSS as an advantage if developers stick together in those Open Standards.
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