meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal) (12/22/89)
In article <6055@ubc-cs.UUCP> manis@cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis) writes: |Somebody recently posted a 1-line article reading `Boy, is this |newsgroup stupid.' After going through 100 or so gnu.misc.discuss |articles, I'm inclined to agree with this person. | |After reading the GPL very carefully, I am unable to see *anything* |different in kind from a standard licence agreement for a programming |language. Indeed, anything which incorporates FSF products becomes |subject to their licence agreement. This is also true of *every* |programming language product with which I am familiar. (And goes on to ask why nobody flames Borland, et al, in this group) 1) This group isn't about Borland. 2) You seem to have missed some points. Of course, if I tried to read 100 of these at once (including mine), I'd probably be a little frazzled, too. 3) Using Borland's libraries doesn't require me to give away my code. MAJOR difference. 4) 99% of the posters to this group don't seem real thrilled with most other licenses, either. I'm not. OK? 5) Many of the current articles have to do with the greater philosophy behind/around/etc the Manifesto, Copyleft, etc. -Miles