on 10/28/2000 4:06 PM, "marc fleury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Indeed if the Avalon guy puts jBoss code in his tree and "contains" our work
> in his work then yeah.. that needs to be GPL.
Bingo. So, this is something that is a major problem for me.
> This is the mutations I was talking about... but the ASF decides not
> to mingle with 60% of the world's OSS codebase *deliberately*.
I'm sorry, but where exactly do you get that 60% number from?
The ASF decides not to mingle with X% of the worlds OSS codebase
*deliberately* for a reason. The reason is simply that the ASF does not
believe in putting excessive restrictions on source code to prevent what
people can and cannot do with it.
This is different than the GPL ideology which is based on a completely
whacked view of the universe that RMS decided to inflict on people.
In my mind, OSS is about simply getting credit for the work that you do, not
requiring people to either jump through hoops or give back their additions
or changes to my source code. I don't give a rats ass what people do with my
source code as long as they simply give me credit for my hard work.
Obviously you don't understand that concept yet. 7 years ago when I started
contributing to OSS projects, I didn't get it either.
In time, I have hope that you will eventually "get it". Good luck. I hope
that you don't get to badly burned in the process.
-jon
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