DOS ain't dead - What does the GPL allow?

What does the GPL allow? (Announce)

posted by mbbrutman , Washington, USA, 31.05.2011, 03:41

> Both seriously impact employment of open source oriented professionals,
> that are mostly employed by hardware manufacturers or the Googles of this
> world.
>
> So many believe it will hurt open source adoptation (and its financing,
> since contrary to popular belief, most is done by people on big business'
> payrol), more than it ever will solve. But it is a matter of principle for
> the FSF.

My previous employer did not seem too upset by GPL3, and they paid me to do open source software development. (And they are one of the biggest contributors to open source.) You can get around almost any licensing requirement by using patch sets and providing instructions with build scripts.

I started with GPL3 because of the "Tivoization" argument. I also evaluated my code in the context of the license - I don't think that I'm doing anybody any serious harm by having mTCP released under GPL v3, as the code is probably not commercially interesting. If there is a sudden resurgence in interest in DOS TCP/IP for non-hobbyist purposes I will be incredibly surprised. In that context I don't think that the GPL2 vs. GPL3 decision should be making anybody upset and I'm really surprised at how much attention this has drawn.

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mTCP Open Source release - mbbrutman, 27.05.2011, 23:47 (Announce)
- mTCP GPL - ecm, 27.05.2011, 23:58
  - GPLv3 - mbbrutman, 28.05.2011, 00:20
    - GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - ecm, 28.05.2011, 00:55
      - GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - mbbrutman, 28.05.2011, 01:09
        GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - ecm, 28.05.2011, 01:18
        GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - mbbrutman, 28.05.2011, 01:25
        download, compile, ... - ecm, 28.05.2011, 01:30
        GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - marcov, 30.05.2011, 09:37
        GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - mbbrutman, 30.05.2011, 15:32
        What does the GPL allow? - ecm, 30.05.2011, 16:08
        What does the GPL allow? - mbbrutman, 30.05.2011, 16:30
        GPL something - ecm, 30.05.2011, 17:08
        GPL something - mbbrutman, 30.05.2011, 18:05
        theoretical licensing problems and such - ecm, 30.05.2011, 18:28
        licensing again... executables - ecm, 30.05.2011, 22:34
        licensing again... executables - mbbrutman, 31.05.2011, 03:33
        licensing again... executables - ecm, 31.05.2011, 13:59
        licensing again... executables - mbbrutman, 01.06.2011, 01:16
        licensing again... executables - ecm, 01.06.2011, 01:53
        licensing again... executables - mbbrutman, 01.06.2011, 02:17
        licensing again... executables - ecm, 01.06.2011, 15:49
        What does the GPL allow? - Rugxulo, 30.05.2011, 18:14
        mTCP in DOSEMU; Linux kernel developers' GPLv2-only reasons - ecm, 30.05.2011, 22:38
        What does the GPL allow? - marcov, 30.05.2011, 22:49
        What does the GPL allow? - mbbrutman, 31.05.2011, 03:41
        What does the GPL allow? - mbbrutman, 31.05.2011, 04:18
        What does the GPL allow? - Japheth, 30.05.2011, 18:47
        Gift trolls and other curiosities - ecm, 30.05.2011, 19:20
        Gift trolls and other curiosities - mbbrutman, 30.05.2011, 19:54
        editing - ecm, 30.05.2011, 20:03
        What does the GPL allow? - marcov, 30.05.2011, 22:38
        What does the GPL allow? - marcov, 30.05.2011, 22:37
        GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - marcov, 30.05.2011, 22:35
        GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - mbbrutman, 30.05.2011, 22:56
        GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - marcov, 02.06.2011, 16:10
        GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - mbbrutman, 03.06.2011, 04:12
        GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - marcov, 03.06.2011, 13:36
        GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - Rugxulo, 03.06.2011, 16:45
- mTCP and SwsVPkt - Japheth, 31.05.2011, 09:03
  - mTCP and SwsVPkt - mbbrutman, 01.06.2011, 03:11
    - mTCP and SwsVPkt - Japheth, 01.06.2011, 13:14
      - mTCP and SwsVPkt - mbbrutman, 01.06.2011, 15:04
    - polling - ecm, 01.06.2011, 16:07
      - polling - Japheth, 01.06.2011, 17:12
        polling - ecm, 01.06.2011, 17:27
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        polling - Rugxulo, 02.06.2011, 00:37
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