Re: Releasing an Oracle PL/SQL Web Toolkit application under the GPL
From: Peter Seebach <seebs_at_plethora.net>
Date: 02 Sep 2001 23:10:23 GMT
Message-ID: <3b92bc5f$0$321$3c090ad1_at_news.plethora.net>
Date: 02 Sep 2001 23:10:23 GMT
Message-ID: <3b92bc5f$0$321$3c090ad1_at_news.plethora.net>
In article <9msv0m$10b$1_at_uranium.btinternet.com>,
Mark Rittman <mark.rittman_at_orange.net> wrote:
>Just as an aside, why did you say 'more's the pity' when mentionin the GPL?
>It seems a good way of putting some useful code into the public domain.
[Quoted] It doesn't, however, put the code "into the public domain" - that would mean [Quoted] that anyone could use it, for any reason, with no restrictions. While that's clearly the maximally free state, it doesn't provide the incentive towards making *other* code free that the GPL is intended to provide.
-s
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