On 2015-07-27, at 11:31, Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > On Monday, 27 Jul 2015 at 10:59, Marcin Borkowski wrote: > > [...] > >> See how stupid this whole copyright law swamp is? >> >> What if I reuse just the basic structure of sentences in the docstrings, >> like in "Subject + verb + preposition + object"? Do I have to use GPL >> then, too? ;-) >> >> And what if I reuse the naming convention of the functions, but to make >> life easier, I'll just copy large fragments of code and do >> a query-replace on them? (This is serious.) > > Yes, this whole issue can be quite messy. The GPL is somewhat viral in > nature and was (probably, arguably) intended to be so. Laudable goals > but sometimes overbearing but let's no go there...
Yes, it's not the discussion I'd like to get into now. > My view would be that if you use any of org code and you want to release > that code to the outside world, you will need to license the result > under GPL. Given your intent to make your code public domain, this is > not a bad way to go in any case. I disagree. Licensing a tutorial with GPL is a stupid thing to do. A tutorial may contain code which people naturally mimic (or even copy). Such things should definitely be in PD. Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University