How GPLv3 tackles license proliferation (LinuxDevices.com)
How GPLv3 tackles license proliferation (LinuxDevices.com)
Posted Nov 11, 2006 21:02 UTC (Sat) by error27 (subscriber, #8346)In reply to: How GPLv3 tackles license proliferation (LinuxDevices.com) by stevenj
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It's getting to be less and less of a problem because BSD is dying but people still steal BSD code and relicense it under the GPL.
Gnash is one recent example of stolen code. Who has the social problem the gnash guys or the gameswf guys? Probably the GNU guys.
I use the GPL for two reasons 1) I'm a bastard and 2) everyone else is a bastard. I'm not asking people to give their code back, I'm taking it back.
Posted Nov 12, 2006 0:01 UTC (Sun)
by drag (guest, #31333)
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I only say this for a couple reasons.
Plus I thought it was the point of the BSD license to be non-copyleft so peopel can use the code and impose additional license requirements on it. So isn't the gnash people doing exactly what the BSD license people want them to do?
Soo.. that seems about as anti-social as somebody baking their neighbor a nice cake.
Posted Nov 12, 2006 18:19 UTC (Sun)
by b3timmons (guest, #40286)
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I don't suppose you can come up with a better example then 'Gnash' vs 'gameswf' as people being 'antisocial'?How GPLv3 tackles license proliferation (LinuxDevices.com)
1. Gameswf development is dead, and has been dead for a while now.
2. The Gnash folks said that they'd be happy to release any code back to Gameswf that they could find usefull.
Agreed that GPL is not antisocial. BTW, gameswf is not under BSD. From the gameswf web page:How GPLv3 tackles license proliferation (LinuxDevices.com)
domain. Do whatever you want with it; no copyright, no restrictions
whatsoever. The code comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.