On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 18:27 -0800, jdow wrote: > From: "Mike McCarty" <mike.mccarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > No, GPL forces one to open everything. > > Not true. It forces you to open everything that uses ANYTHING that is > itself GPL contaminated and not purely your own work. (You can dual > license your own work.) I don't see what the big deal is with the GPL "encumbrance". It's just like any other license - if you can't live with its terms, just don't incorporate software licensed by it into your own work. It's like seeing some whiz-bang control you might like to use if you're a Visual Basic programmer, except that the license for the control costs $1,000. If you don't want to pay the $1,000, you don't use the control. What's the difference? Paul.
