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23 Dec 2025 03:09:56 EST (-0500)
  Re: This GPL stuff is getting ridiculous  
From: nemesis
Date: 28 Jan 2009 16:18:15
Message: <4980cb97@news.povray.org>
Darren New escreveu:
> If I include libjpg without modifying it at all, I can no longer use the 
> MIT license on my code, even if my code is orders of magnitude larger 
> and more valuable. This forces me, while building something large that I 
> need to get paid for, to rewrite code that's already tested and works 
> well and is bug-free and safe.

Oh, come on!  If you stopped whinning about sucky and evil GPL software 
and pulled yourself together to write down replacement code for said 
libs, you'd have by now a pretty large collection of good non-GPL 
software under your belt.  After all, they are pretty trivial and simple 
against your magnum opus.

> Hence, GPL code leads to bugs in non-GPL 
> code.

You're complaining that it's Microsoft's fault that device drivers are 
buggy and crash Windows.


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