Good info on the open source license

Zscoundrel Zscoundrel at kc.rr.com
Tue Dec 16 15:15:55 CST 2003


I got this from Slashdot this morning.  Good info on the GPL and the FUD 
that always seems to swirl around something M$ doesn't like.

*Viral GPL Misconceptions Elegantly Explained 
<http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/15/2041236>*
Scot W. Stevenson 
<mailto:scot at possum.in-POLLOCKberlin.de%20minus%20paint> writes /"Our 
favorite paralegal Pamela Jones of Groklaw <http://www.groklaw.net/> has 
put together a short FUD-killer on the General Public License 
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> that explains why you can't lose 
your proprietary code if you inadvertently incorporate GPL code 
<http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031214210634851>. This is 
not the only text of its kind, but it is so well explained that you 
might want to bookmark the page for future reference."/

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