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Entries published on July 14, 2009

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When licenses attack

Jacob posted twenty questions about the GPL. Zed followed with an explanation of why he placed Lamson under the GPL. This has provoked some discussion around the internets, some of which I have read and some of which I’ve ignored.

Unfortunately, there’s a lot of noise drowning out useful discussion, much of it centered around alleging — directly or indirectly — that if you ask questions about how the GPL interacts with other licenses, you must be trying to “get around” the GPL, or take someone’s GPL code and use it against their wishes. This is quite sad, because the question of how the GPL interacts with non-GPL open-source licenses is both interesting and important.

I don’t have any doubts about Jacob’s or Zed’s bona fides when it comes to Free/open-source software. I know both of them well enough to know that they’re really smart guys who are …

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