Re: [LINUX5250] License is a non-issue?

[Michael Madore <mmadore@xxxxxxxxx>]

Scott Klement wrote:

>Everybuddy and VirtualDub are both GPLed packages.  You seem to be
>implying that they would've been safe against the problems they
>encountered if they'd used the GPL -- but the fact is, they DID use the
>GPL.
>
>In fact, in both of these cases, they were lucky.  If someone took the
>code for tn5250, and created a proprietary software from it, what are the
>odds that we'd ever find out about it?   If you removed the comments,
>changed a few variable names, and ran it through a code beautifier,
>there'd be no hope of us ever discovering that the code was stolen.
>
>Sure, using a license like the GPL makes this illegal.  But that only
>keeps the honest people from doing it!
>
>At least by releasing it under the BSD license, they'd have less incentive
>to rip us off, and more incentive to cooperate...
>
>But, we could argue about licenses for the rest of the year and not get
>anywhere.  I'm okay with the LGPL or GPL or BSD or Apache or Mozilla
>licenses...  Just please don't tell me that all the code I've done on my
>own time, without pay, frequently until 3:00 in the morning, needs to be
>discarded because of some technicality in the GPL.
>
>Let's get the license fixed and move on.
>
>Does anyone know how to get in touch with Mr. Madore?   I assume that he's
>not reading these messages, since he hasn't said anything.
>
Please don't call me Mr. Madore, it makes me feel old. ;-)  I don't have
a problem with the LGPL vs GPL, especially since I'm not contributing
code at the moment.  Make sure my name stays in there though.  I like to
brag to the guy who works on our iSeries Linux port. ;-)

Mike