On 11 Mai, 23:02, Patrick Maupin <pmau...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Huh? Permissive licenses offer much better certainty for someone > attempting a creative mash-up. Different versions of the Apache > license don't conflict with each other. If I use an MIT-licensed > component, it doesn't attempt to make me offer my whole work under > MIT.
What certainty does the MIT licence give contributors to a project against patent infringement claims initiated by another contributor? [...] > Oh, I get it. You were discussing the certainty that an author can > control what downstream users do with the software to some extent. > Yes, I fully agree. The GPL is for angry idealists who have an easily > outraged sense of justice, who don't have enough real problems to work > on. Again, the author does not exercise control when people must voluntarily choose to use that author's work and thereby agree to adhere to that author's set of terms. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
