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Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 (Announce)

posted by marcov, 14.02.2011, 11:04

> > Jim is a GPL zealot, seriously, he's (semi-correctly)
> > obsessed with the "four freedoms", mainly so that nothing comes back to
> > bite him or us.
>
> Pffft. I just don't understand GPL zealots. (As developer) I want the fifth
> freedom too: source free of the GPL ;)

It's mostly that you can avoid that an old contributor retracts his sources when he is disgruntled with it, and you spend more time deleting his stuff, and working around the gaps then that he contribute in the first place.

With the GPL you avoid that, since they explicitely grant you a perpetual license.

Of course GPL is a weapon of mass destruction for some business interests, but I don't see how that would hurt something like FreeDOS.

Complete thread:

• Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 - Khusraw, 10.02.2011, 15:14 (Announce)
  • Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 - RayeR, 10.02.2011, 16:21
  • Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 - rr, 10.02.2011, 22:47
  • Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 - Rugxulo, 12.02.2011, 02:10
    • Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 - ecm, 12.02.2011, 13:00
      • Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 - Rugxulo, 12.02.2011, 20:48
      • Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 - marcov, 14.02.2011, 11:04
    • Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 - dave11, 02.03.2011, 00:01
      • Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 - Rugxulo, 02.03.2011, 01:09
  • Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 - roytam, 26.02.2015, 04:43