... and OS X and iOS are clearly a win for the FLOSS community?
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Alexander Solla <alex.so...@gmail.com>wrote: > As a matter of fact, BSD is far more popular on the desktop than GPL. And > has a huge share of the mobile market. Witness: OS X, iOS. > > And none of this has anything to do with Haskell. Petr can release *his* > code with any license he wants. Some licenses fit into *this* ecosystem > better than others. Suggestions have been made and we can all move on. > > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:03 PM, David Thomas <davidleotho...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Right. Like, if Linus hadn't bogged down the Linux kernel with the GPL >> license, it might have wound up as popular as BSD! >> >> Both dynamics go on, and the question is which is more likely to dominate >> in a given case (and cumulatively). >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Jonathan Fischer Friberg < >> odysso...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Ramana Kumar <ramana.ku...@cl.cam.ac.uk >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> Using the GPL (or a strong copyleft free license) strengthens the free >>>> software community of which I thought the Haskell community is a part (or >>>> at least intersects substantially). >>>> >>> >>> I don't think it strengthens the community. If someone wants to make a >>> change a library, >>> but not release the source, they cannot do that with GPL. >>> The idea behind GPL is that then, the change is forced to be released - >>> which would, as you say, strengthen the community. >>> However, I think what would happen instead is that the person would >>> simply not use the library in the first place. >>> >>> So in short: GPL does not make people become a part of the community - >>> it pushes them away. >>> >>> Jonathan >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >>> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org >>> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >> >> >
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