POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : This GPL stuff is getting ridiculous : Re: This GPL stuff is getting ridiculous Server Time
23 Dec 2025 03:09:55 EST (-0500)
  Re: This GPL stuff is getting ridiculous  
From: Warp
Date: 28 Jan 2009 16:19:39
Message: <4980cbeb@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> 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. Hence, GPL code leads to bugs in non-GPL code.

  Btw, libjpeg is not GPL.

  (And another btw: I have no idea what you are talking about above.)

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                                                          - Warp


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