On Jan 15, 2007, at 3:14 PM, Daniel L. Taylor wrote:
There seems to be a good deal of misunderstanding of the GPL
hereabouts lately. The GPL says that it is good when software is
free. As countless projects have demonstrated, when literally
everyone and anyone can contribute to a project, the result can be
great software that anyone can use without cost.
The GPL goes beyond that to try and force your software to be
"free" according to their definition of "free". "Free" is a poor
choice of words for a code base with strict use limitations and a
viral nature. BSD is free. GPL is not.
GPL is as much about philosophical issues as it is about anything else
Once you understand the Gnu, and mostly Richard Stallman's, ideology
it's understandable it is the way it is.
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