Re: [tlug] GPL Quote

[Christian Horn <chorn@example.com>]

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 07:35:09PM +0900, Curt Sampson wrote:
> On 2008-12-25 09:49 +0100 (Thu), Christian Horn wrote:
> 
> > I agree and would prefer to put effort into GPL-projects over others
> > for that cause:  if code gets greated others should not only get it
> > but also be forced by license to make modifications public.
> 
> Well, you want something stronger than the GPL, then. The GPL only
> forces you to make modifications public if you make the compiled version
> public; you can modify all you like without distributing source if you
> don't distribute the binary.

True.. maybe thats because noone could track if the code gets modified
somewhere, somehow anyway.


On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 06:26:57PM +0900, Kenneth Burling wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Christian Horn <chorn@example.com> wrote:
> >
> > I agree and would prefer to put effort into GPL-projects over others
> > for that cause:  if code gets greated others should not only get it
> > but also be forced by license to make modifications public.
> >
> We should probably be careful at this point though, as we are getting
> very close to what some people would consider a religious debate.
> Some of us have different views of the Open Source and Free Software
> movement(s). Some of us tend to become very rabid very quickly as
> well.  :P

"It could attract much debate" is not a good argument to drop a 
thread ;)
I wrote this just for the obvious reasons:
- maybe someone is not aware of this
- maybe i got stuff wrong and get corrected


Happy 2.6.28 to you all, Christian