On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 16:20 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Simo Sorce wrote:
>
>> It's possible, but rare for project that has been under the GPL for any
>> length of time. Since there is no requirement to track the copyright
>> ownership of contributers there is generally no way to get permission
>> from all of them for a change. Of course a dual license could be
>> applied from the start with one being less restrictive like perl's to
>> eliminate that problem.
>
> Such dual licensing would be useless.
How has it harmed perl to not force it's users to worry, as this endless
thread has, about whether or not some component that it links is too
free or not free enough?
Heh, this discussion is actually useless too.
You dislike the GPL, fine, I think everybody understood that. Now you
have 2 options: come to terms with it, or not.
In either case I'd suggest you express your frustrations about licenses
on some other list, not on a development list.
Simo.
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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York