Ciaran O'Riordan wrote: > > Rubbish. People have been predicting the death of the GPL for 20 years, and > in 20 years time they'll still be predictig its death.
Hey Ciaran, any chance that "FreeBooteR" is your nick at the451group.com? http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2010/01/28/as-the-gpl-fades/ "Comment by FreeBooteR, January 28, 2010 7:18 pm Hate freedom much? The GPL is strong and growing and will always be there to free people from the tyranny of proprietary licencing. Reply to this comment Comment by Jay Lyman, January 28, 2010 10:49 pm Consider reality much? As stated in the post, GPL is strong and will endure as a top open source license, but it wont be number one for long. Those other licenses, BTW, are ironically and accurately known as permissive, while the tyranny-busting GPL is widely and accurately known as restrictive. JL ... There are a few examples of movement away from GPL. And where exactly did we mention anything about doomed to oblivion. If I can quote myself Given its clout, durability and continued popularity in commercial open source (and with help from continued growth of GPL-licensed Linux) we believe the GPL will endure as a top open source license. Sooo sensationalist ... JL ... As the GPL fades ... seems like a fairly accurate description of how I believe the GPL is fading. Its not doomed. Its not going away. But it is fading from its prominence as the top open source license. I dont necessarily agree the GPL suits should drive anyone away from GPL and I think they do more to raise awareness and credibility for open source, but the effect will undoubtedly be to spur some to avoid the perceived trouble. JL" regards, alexander. -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss