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:Why You Hate the GPL and Why I Love It
Why You Hate the GPL and Why I Love It
Apr 26, 2008, 18 :00 UTC (3 Talkback[s]) (4862 reads)

(Other stories by Matt Asay)

"I'm helping to edit what is turning out to be a shockingly good book on the legal issues around open source, from the developer's perspective, which Van Lindberg is finishing up and which O'Reilly will be publishing. When it comes out, you will want to buy it. It's incredibly well-written and expresses things much more clearly than I've yet seen in my 10 years within the open-source community.

"As a case in point, Van explicates the Great Divide between those who love and loathe the GPL by citing a post on the Python mailing list about a controversial bit of code called setuptools..."

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"For those of we who believe that the GP ...   the gpl does not say that   
Carla Schroder
Apr 27, 2008, 01:57:48
 
The GPL is concerned with rights which h ...   The GPL makes no such demands.   
Rainer Weikusat
Apr 27, 2008, 13:53:23
 
> "For those of we who believe that the  ...   Re: the gpl does not say that   
Jose_X
Apr 29, 2008, 04:02:28
 
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