-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 11:03, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 11:41:41 -0700, Josh Berkus >> <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [snip] > The coercion of the GPL is legalistic. If you distribute GPL > stuff, you've got to give out the source code with it. So, you > might as well give it to the community at large. With BSD, it's > more that you'd be cutting yourself off from the community at > large if you didn't return the code. So, the coercion is much > more subtle. It's much easier to donate your code to the project > and let other people maintain it then to try and maintain your > own fork of the code and cross patch their changes into your own. Ultrix and SunOS are two counter-examples. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE+R+jS9HxQb37XmcRAi9oAJ9xtMVAtP0Iyphs4X5pOE8SPfYeUgCg2WjW ETzN0+tPInoThU2bhmcDanM= =OXWG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
