POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Re: Licensing, Was: Re: CSDL Update : Re: Licensing Server Time
6 Aug 2024 21:40:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Licensing  
From: Rick [Kitty5]
Date: 26 Jan 2002 04:42:43
Message: <3c527a13@news.povray.org>
> Ok, I remember reading something about this...I guess it was sitting at
> the back of my mind, bugging me while refusing to come forward. ;-)
> I'll probably go with the Artistic License, maybe the Clarified Artistic
> License...it seems very reasonable and straightforward.
> I'll avoid the GPL from now on, even if that clause gets removed. I
> don't trust people who would put that kind of thing in the license.

GPL is a cancerous waste pf space, its only real effect has been to stifle
3rd party Linux software. I don't think for one second it has stopped any
unscrupulous developer pinching open source code for inclusion in commercial
projects - afterall who would ever know


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Rick

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