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[ILUG] GPL Bad for Linux? (Link)

[ILUG] GPL Bad for Linux? (Link)

Dave Airlie airlied at csn.ul.ie
Tue Aug 17 08:06:11 IST 2004


>
> "<blub> <blub> we cant take GPL code and 'proprietise' it like we can with
> code under that nice, charming and business-friendly BSD licence."
>
> /me reaches for kleenex and wipes tear from eye
>

yeah my heart bleeds, Linux doesn't seem to be any less successful than
FreeBSD (that very successful OS :-)... I can see how the GPL QT could
harm KDE and proprietary apps as a better example... and the LGPL GTK
works better..

Dave.

-- 
David Airlie, Software Engineer
http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie
pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person




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