POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.off-topic: This GPL stuff is getting ridiculous: Re: This GPL stuff is getting ridiculous

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From: Darren New
Date: 31 Jan 2009 20:10:38
Message: <4984f68e$1@news.povray.org>

Chambers wrote:
> On 1/29/2009 11:04 AM, nemesis wrote:
>> Of couse, for those who don't like the GPL and its measures to assure
>> sources are always available, forking is an option as is opting for
>> another compiler under another license.
> 
> Forking is never an option with GPL without the fork also being GPL'd.

Yes, but you could fork it, remove the parts that force plug-ins to be GPLed 
before they run, and then distribute the new fork under GPL.

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