Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 16, 2006 11:00 AM
Agreed. This guy does Mepis in his *spare* time. What profit is he seeing here? How is he *stealing* the work of others if he credits them and links to the code.
I think this provision of the GPL is useless AND dangerous. If I were to make a simple 1-line, 10 byte change to the linux kernel and distribute it, this provision would require that I also distribute *every line of code* for the kernel. That's a huge disincentive for the hobbyist programmers who are the reason Linux even exists.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 16, 2006 11:00 AMI think this provision of the GPL is useless AND dangerous. If I were to make a simple 1-line, 10 byte change to the linux kernel and distribute it, this provision would require that I also distribute *every line of code* for the kernel. That's a huge disincentive for the hobbyist programmers who are the reason Linux even exists.
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