--- On Fri, 5/14/10, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> 
wrote:

> From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand>
> Subject: Re: Picking a license
> To: python-list@python.org
> Date: Friday, May 14, 2010, 10:07 PM
> In message <mailman.173.1273853893.32709.python-l...@python.org>,
> Ed Keith 
> wrote:
> 
> > That is one good reason for choosing to use the GPL,
> instead of a less
> > restrictive license. You can license it, for a fee, to
> someone who wants
> > to use it in some way that is not allowed under the
> GPL.
> 
> Replace “GPL” with “<other licence>” and your
> statement is no less (or more) 
> true.
> 
> Funny how a lot of the arguments people keep trying to put
> forward about the 
> GPL really have nothing to do with the GPL.
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> 

I can not imagine anyone being stupid enough to pay me for rights to use code I 
had already published under the Boost License, which grants then the rights to 
do anything they want with it without paying me anything.

  -EdK

Ed Keith
e_...@yahoo.com

Blog: edkeith.blogspot.com





      
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