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jwashbur@whittman-hart.com
Fri, 2 Oct 1998 08:54:56 -0500
---------------------- Forwarded by John Washburn/Whittman-Hart LP on
10/02/98 08:56 AM ---------------------------
Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk> on 10/01/98 02:38:29 PM
To: John Washburn/Whittman-Hart LP
cc:
Subject: Re: Why GNU GPL is bad for crypto deployment
> As the GPL goes, I agree with Adam. I am currently re-writing some code
to
> specifically remove GNU code "contamination". Those are the exact words
> used by my attorney. I had trouble describing to my delightfully
mercenary
> attorney why the GPL may not be a "Bad Thing" from my perspective.
btw. this comment of yours (my real life experience also, on several
occasions), did you Cc that to the list, because your tense of writing
suggests that it was intended for a list, but the only recipients were:
To: adam
Did you forget the Cc to list or did you do a Bcc?
Could I forward your comment, with your permission ,if you had
intended to post it?
I think many do not _get it_ because in truth they have never written
any code as a crypto coder / contracter for commercial people, so they
don't realise what it implies. As I commented in antoher post, my
world view on GNU changed some years back when I actually tried this
in practice!
> Better is a BSD license with a contribution list from here to the moon.
> Legally, this presents far less challenge to deriving commercial products
> from our coding project. We could include in the library/libraries a
> function, GetContributors(), that returns a pointer to an array of
strings
> (similar to argv[]) with contributors names.
yep.
My license on stuff I write (non-commercially) is the most liberal
possible:
the user can do _anything_ with it. redistribute under any license
(including GNU), claim they wrote it, sell it, license it, whatever.
It is truly a "STEAL THIS CODE" license.
Adam
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