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GPL is like a cancer
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Rjack |
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GPL is like a cancer |
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Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:56:08 -0400 |
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"As we were going over the scan results I noticed a very interesting
trend. The GPL licensed software tends to assimilate quite a bit of
BSD-style and public domain source code. By including that other
source code it ends up spreading like a cancer."
http://questonsecurity.blogspot.com/2009/04/gpl-license-is-like-cancer.html
Theo de Raadt also noticed this phenomena -- GPL folks stealing code/
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/openbsd-misc/2007/9/1/153822
Sincerely,
Rjack :)
- GPL is like a cancer,
Rjack <=