Jonathan Cast
On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 13:01 -0300, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva wrote:
Op vrijdag 26-09-2008 om 11:45 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Stefan Monnier:
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.
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