Michael,
Whilst I don't necessarily disagree with your conclusions, the survey
was conducted by a large IT analysis firm called Evans Data
Corporation which as far as I can tell has been producing surveys for
around 10 years. They explicitly spell out their methodology on their
website and I don'
On Sep 26, 6:06 pm, Bill Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There's an interesting article on slashdot.org today about the
> reception the GPLv3 is getting.
>
> Bill.
Hello Bill,
I would consider that article pretty worthless. I wouldn't even call
it an article, it is just a press release. Th
> Well, as long as "is similar in spirit" is interpreted by a court in
> the way we all would hope, then that's all good.
>
> I hope we can leave all this licensing stuff behind soon and get on
> with writing great code.
And how about just agreeing to release all the code with a copyright
set to
There's an interesting article on slashdot.org today about the
reception the GPLv3 is getting.
Bill.
On 25 Sep, 21:47, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sep 25, 2007, at 4:43 PM, William Stein wrote:
>
>
>
> >> Okay, so what if MS makes the FSF people an offer they can't refuse,
> >>
On Sep 25, 2007, at 4:43 PM, William Stein wrote:
>> Okay, so what if MS makes the FSF people an offer they can't refuse,
>> "buys them out", releases a new GPL v4 which says "you can do
>> anything you want with this code". I've agreed to be bound by any
>> subsequent license version right? So
On 9/25/07, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > One thing is that your code will always still be licensed V2, so as
> > long as GPL versions >= 4 are *more* restrictive (which is likely
> > to be the case, given that version 3 is more restrictive than
> > version 2),
> > you really don't l
On 9/25/07, Robert Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have just skimmed through the sage-devel discussion about this, and
> I am even more confused than when I started.
>
> 1) I don't like releasing code to which a license that does not yet
> exist could be applied. Can't we get away with "GPL
