You cheeky monkey.

Post #205,307 by pwhysall 4/30/05 3:31:37 AM 4/30/05 9:13:55 AM Reply	You cheeky monkey. I didn't get mad or grumpy. I know I disagreed with something your pet company did (license the NetWare filesystem as GPL rather than LGPL) but that doesn't make me grumpy. Sheesh. Edit: Where the L did my L go? Peter [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu Linux] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes! Edited by pwhysall April 30, 2005, 09:13:55 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #205,310 by drewk 4/30/05 7:46:19 AM Reply	Not a nit, honest question ... license the NetWare filesystem as GPL rather than GPL ... What did you mean to say here? I don't remember enough of the background to know what point you're making. === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]
Post #205,312 by pwhysall 4/30/05 9:13:27 AM Reply	LGPL makes more sense for libraries... ...and things you want other people to be able to interoperate with, without interfering with their licensing. If you link your thing against a GPL thing, you end up having to GPL your thing. If you link your thing against an LGPL thing, your thing's license can be anything (including the GPL, natch). Of course, if you take an LGPLed thing and directly modify it, you're still bound to license your new-thing-based-on-the-LGPL-thing as LGPL. I just think the GPL for filesystems is a bit silly. While I agree with the GPL and its intentions, I don't agree with causing other things to be GPLed just because they link against something. Clever people also thought this, and invented the LGPL. Peter [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu Linux] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #205,315 by broomberg 4/30/05 10:28:46 AM Reply	And since when is a filesystem a library? Maybe certain calls to access it will be over an API, and somebody will create library to embed those calls, which would make sense be be LGPL. But the file system itself? NO WAY! You might as well make it BSD and hand it over to MS to embed in Longhorn.
Post #205,316 by pwhysall 4/30/05 10:56:52 AM Reply	Shrug. We'll have to agree to differ, your nonsensical last sentence notwithstanding. Peter [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu Linux] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!

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