Switching from PHP to Zope/Python

Posted Mar 24, 2004 22:13 UTC (Wed) by kornak (guest, #17589)
Parent article: Switching from PHP to Zope/Python

It seems someone from SCO is trolling through these stories:

http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2004/3/21/184222/896?pid=68#71

quote:

"Unless your program is only used with the inferior theftware Java implementations, you are inevitably going to run up the viral provisions of the GPL if you attempt to do this. If your software requires linking against the Java libraries (and it is pretty much impossible to write a Java program that doesn't ), and it is run using the sun Java virtual machine, the act of executing your software will produce a derived work consisting of both GPL-incompatible code (namely, the Java library) and GPL code, and hence using it will be against the GPL, in much the same way that using the Qt libraries distributed under Trolltech's highly reasonable licensing terms along with GPL software was illegal before they caved into pressure from "open source" activists. A better choice would be to keep the code proprietary and distribute binaries as freeware if you are dead-set against deriving any kind of profit from the making of computer software."...

Switching from PHP to Zope/Python

Posted Mar 24, 2004 23:25 UTC (Wed) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]

That's kuro5hin, though. The articles are sometimes worth reading, but usually k5 is a tale told by many idiots, full of sound and fury, and signifying nothing.