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 --
No. This is clearly incorrect. The GPL only applies to the code, and modifications to said code. If you are in doubt as to the licensaes of various systems, ask a lawyer. Many of the rest of us have.
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.
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.
Please, take license religous wars elsewhere. This is not an appropriate forum. This last paragraph sounds very troll-like, or flame-baiting to me. This list is about using Zope. -- Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are easy to annoy, and have the root password.