Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 05, 2004 01:29 AM
If you don't want to release under the GPL, simply don't incorporate GPL code into your project. Or, put more generically, if you don't want to obey the terms of a license, don't incorporate code covered by that license into your project.
If the 5% of the code that is GPL is so critical that you can't replace it on your own, then I fail to see the problem with following the license. If it's something you can replace, go ahead and replace it and release under whatever license you like.
With the prior BSD license (with advertisment clause) would you have argued that only 5% of the code was BSD licensed, so you shouldn't have follow that license?
Of course, I also note that you skipped completely over the fact that you don't *HAVE* to transfer your copyright to the FSF in order to release under the GPL. If you want a good example of a project which uses the GPL that the FSF doesn't own every copyright to, simply check out the Linux kernel. (The FSF does own some copyrights there, because some people have contributed code to the kernel and transferred their copyright to the FSF.)
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Re:Just another GPL zealot looking for freebies.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 05, 2004 01:29 AMOr, put more generically, if you don't want to obey the terms of a license, don't incorporate code covered by that license into your project.
If the 5% of the code that is GPL is so critical that you can't replace it on your own, then I fail to see the problem with following the license. If it's something you can replace, go ahead and replace it and release under whatever license you like.
With the prior BSD license (with advertisment clause) would you have argued that only 5% of the code was BSD licensed, so you shouldn't have follow that license?
Of course, I also note that you skipped completely over the fact that you don't *HAVE* to transfer your copyright to the FSF in order to release under the GPL. If you want a good example of a project which uses the GPL that the FSF doesn't own every copyright to, simply check out the Linux kernel. (The FSF does own some copyrights there, because some people have contributed code to the kernel and transferred their copyright to the FSF.)
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