POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : This GPL stuff is getting ridiculous : Re: This GPL stuff is getting ridiculous Server Time
28 Sep 2024 17:15:46 EDT (-0400)
  Re: This GPL stuff is getting ridiculous  
From: somebody
Date: 28 Jan 2009 14:45:34
Message: <4980b5de$1@news.povray.org>
"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
news:4980a265$1@news.povray.org...
> Jim Henderson wrote:

> >>   This makes GPL incompatible with all other licenses. This is rather
> >> restricting.

> > But protective of the rights of the original author, which is the
> > underlying goal.

> Which original author? The one giving away the code with more
restrictions,
> or the one giving away the code with fewer restrictions?

Rights of the author who released his code under GPL of course. Only in the
bizzaro world might it make sense to assume GPL would offer protection to
authors who don't (!?) use it.


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