Hi! On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Nils Kassube wrote:
Oleg Broytmann wrote:
LICENSE GPL
I've seen several Zope products using the GPL. In my not so humble opinion, this could develop into a serious problem for Zope deployment. I'm not a lawyer (nor do I play one on TV), but the use of GPL'ed source code like e.g. Renderable ZClass in your web site probably means that you're now forced to publish every single bit of source built using the GPL'ed module -- including commercial intranet projects. This can be impossible if you don't own the rights to every single piece of code used in a project.
No, you are not forced to publish anything. GPL "virus" applied only if you want to *distribute* combined (your code + my GPL'd code).
I hope Zope product developers think twice about using the GPL. The GPL license is not about sharing like e.g. the BSD license, it's about enforcing the political agenda of people who think that commercial ("proprietary") software w/o source code is evil.
Yes, exactly! You've got the point! I love GPL! :) Oleg. ---- Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ phd@phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.