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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