A new low for LJ?
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| Author | Content |
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| Sander_Marechal May 25, 2009 5:04 AM EDT |
What a piece of insidious FUD. I don't have a very high opinion of LJ to begin with (some authors are great, some aree just MS shills it seems) but this really sets a new low. |
| tracyanne May 25, 2009 5:14 AM EDT |
The moral of the story is don't defend the GPL, you might lose. |
| Sander_Marechal May 25, 2009 5:55 AM EDT |
Yeah, crazy isn't it? |
| caitlyn May 25, 2009 8:52 AM EDT |
Linux Journal has hit so many lows it's hard to tell if this is really a new bottom. I'm still not sure they've topped this: http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/10/linux_journals_... |
| Sander_Marechal May 25, 2009 10:40 AM EDT |
Yeah, that was pretty low as well. |
| gus3 May 25, 2009 11:44 AM EDT |
They keep pestering me with their "special discount for former LJ subscribers". I'm nearly ready to start marking their stuff as spam. |
| caitlyn May 25, 2009 11:47 AM EDT |
gus: They finally gave up on me :) It's been about two and a half years since I dropped the subscription. I have no intention of resubscribing unless there are major editorial changes. |
| dinotrac May 25, 2009 1:23 PM EDT |
The article's author has no faith in the GPL, or too much love for the FSF. Probably the former. I would love to see a court test of the GPL because I believe it to be a good strong license and because I believe that court tests would trim it back here and there, making clear where the boundaries actually lie. Frankly, I think a court test would make it easier to incorporate GPL'd code into non-GPL'd binaries, and I think that would be a good thing. |
| tuxchick May 26, 2009 9:54 AM EDT |
Ye gods, what an awful article. Dino, the GPL has seen the inside of courtrooms in Germany, and won. I think if it ever goes to a US court test it will be over the derived works bit, since that still seems to be a point of confusion. Otherwise it seems to have Magic Clarity Powers to the point that so far, nobody in the US has been foolish enough to challenge it. |
| dinotrac May 26, 2009 10:55 AM EDT |
TC - It's not a matter of winning or losing so much as defining the boundaries. FSF tends to overreach, as do people who want to stretch the envelope. And yes -- we are talking about derived works -- more or less The GPL's problem with derived works comes down to distribution because the GPL allows users to create derived works with non-GPL'd code, but not to distribute them. By the same token, non-GPL'd code that can incorporate GPL'd code but is distributed without it is not a derived work, so...well, you get the idea. |
| tuxchick May 26, 2009 11:24 AM EDT |
Ow. :) |
| dinotrac May 26, 2009 4:47 PM EDT |
Yup. ;0) |
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