Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Hmm, what license to use?

On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 18:26 +0200, Achim Schneider wrote:

Jonathan Cast wrote:

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On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 13:01 -0300, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva wrote:

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Op vrijdag 26-09-2008 om 11:45 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Stefan Monnier:

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When I compare GPL and MIT/BSD licenses, I do a simple reasoning. Suppose a doctor in a battle field meet a badly injuried enemy. Should he help the enemy?

My answer would be that he indeed should, at the condition that the patient will switch side. Oh wait, that's just what the GPL says.

This is a good requisition if he is sure that he is on the right side of the battle, which is a assumption the soldier probably does, but should the doctor do it too?

Yikes. I should go create a /. thread for this to move to.

The standard practise:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triage

has enough moral compensations by itself to make you gulp.

Huh? Has that page been edited since you last looked at it? It doesn't say a thing about military practice, specifically, except that it originated *behind the French lines* in WWI, which I guess is where all those German soldiers were taken so they could be patched up and returned to their own side. Sheesh. jcc