On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 16:35 -0400, Sean wrote: > > > > > Choosing the GPL is no more a political statement than choosing > > > a proprietary or BSD or MIT or any other license. > > > > We've been through this many times already. The GPL is the > > only one that claims control over other people's work. > > > > No. It doesn't claim control over anyone elses work. Now we are back to the RIPEM example where a separate work using only the published library interface to a GPL'd work was threatened with legal action. > It > claims control of the work delivered under the GPL. If you > want to use a GPL work you have to agree to its license. And once again, it has nothing to do with 'using' a work. It has to do with distributing what someone could imaginatively call a derived work. > If > you don't like it's license do not use the GPL work, and you'll > have no problems at all. If you use a GPL work, then you have > to accept its license. And again, not using GPL'd works seems to be your favorite solution, which makes it odd that you claim to like the license. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
