From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: DJ Delorie To: tolj@uni-duesseldorf.de Cc: N8TM@aol.com, mh@mike.franken.de, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: <199903080124.UAA15808@envy.delorie.com> References: <57b99220.36e2f890@aol.com> <199903072222.RAA14720@envy.delorie.com> <36E311C7.672E@uni-duesseldorf.de> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00202.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.I5bMWepjLgJAiBxgImssEdcX_Duk6GZDrxpLQBcCS9U@z> > > Besides, it doesn't matter if it's easy or not. The GPL is a legal ... > > of course you are right. But this may be considered as an optimal > solution that doesn't match reality in some cases, like normal life > doesn't. Yup. For a lot of people it's not practical to write a custom license for a package. The GPL is a good license for a lot of situations, and it's been thoroughly reviewed by lawyers already, so a lot of people just adopt it as-is. Unfortunately, a lot of people adopt it without fully understanding it. That doesn't mean that you can ignore it because it's inconvenent. > In my opinion not a very representative example for our aims :) No, but one example is enough to explain the GPL. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com