On May 13, 10:59 pm, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this- cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Thu, 13 May 2010 17:18:47 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: > > The thing you GPL fanbois refuse to understand or accept is that, in the > > real world, a person or company who doesn't want to open source their > > "derivative work" will only rarely be forced to by the GPL. They'll work > > around it instead, vast majority of the time. They could: > > > 1. Derive their work from a project with a license that grants the user > > more freedom > > 2. Reimplment the functionality seperately (*cough* PySide) > > Yes. So what? In what possible way is this an argument against the GPL?
[snip a bunch of crap I don't care about] It's not. It's an argument that the GPL doesn't do much good. Arguments against the GPL are found elsewhere in this thread, I don't need to repeat them here. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list