[103531] in Cypherpunks
Re: Why GNU GPL is bad for crypto deployment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Roessler)
Tue Sep 29 03:15:18 1998
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 08:32:09 +0200
From: Thomas Roessler <roessler@guug.de>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
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In-Reply-To: <199809282336.AAA23094@server.eternity.org>
Reply-To: Thomas Roessler <roessler@guug.de>
On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 12:36:45AM +0100, Adam Back wrote:
> Which is why companies won't touch GNU license stuff with a barge
> pole.
[....]
> Well, it's your code, and you wrote it, so it's your choice: my
> comments are based on the assumption that the author is more
> interested in crypto deployment than in the GNU license virus as a
> means of promoting the availability of source code.
I have to partially object here: If code is to be used
commercially, lawyers can ask the copyright holders for a different
license, and they may quite well succeed even if the original
distribution was under GPL.
tlr
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