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Re: GPL is like a cancer
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ray |
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Re: GPL is like a cancer |
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7 Apr 2009 14:10:10 GMT |
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On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:56:08 -0400, Rjack wrote:
> "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 :)
OK, so it spreads. So what's the problem?