Les Mikesell wrote: >>That's why these complaints seem really churlish to me, ignoring the >>boon to you and only complaining about your contribution back. > > I don't recall mentioning any contributions or lack thereof. My Man your memory must be failing you. Here you go: >>> Once the first little bit is GPL'd, no one has that choice if they >>> want to contribute. For a very large part of the code base, I'd > complaint is as an end user, not being able to have certain > things in addition to the GPL'd parts for the incremental cost > of adding them. Or more realistically, being forced to use > Windows or OSX for many tasks because the functionality can't > legally be added to Linux. I realize that the choices have > already been made - I just don't understand why anyone else > thinks it is a good thing. I did my best to explain to you the point of view of a GPL'd project on this matter and compared it to the experience of an equivalent liberally licensed project without the viral license. If it still doesn't make any sense then I guess you will have to remain puzzled. -Andy
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