Re: Draft 1 of the OpenDesk.com Public Source License

[David Starner]

On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 07:56:02PM -0800, Arandir wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, David Starner wrote:
> 
> > > This is equivalent to forking the project at the start, unless you add
> > > an addendum to the GPL that stipulates that GPL contributors permit you
> > > to take their changes and re-release them under the APSL clone. Of
> > > course, then it's not GPL anymore.
> > 
> > It's possible that it will get forked. Of course, that's possible with
> > any license that's not a copyleft.
> 
> Copyleft can get forked just as easily. Compare GNU emacs versus XEmacs.

Not just as easily. RMS could, at any time, merge in any changes from XEmacs
to GNU Emacs. He just choses not to. (He has his reasons, but it is his 
choice.) With a copyleft, you can always merge in their changes if you chose
to.

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sociopaths who are good at killing and who enjoy dark powers. Maybe 
it's just my friends?
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