Re: Glasgow mafia meeting at PLDI

Alastair David Reid wrote,

Alastair David Reid wrote,

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o BSD fans think that "contamination" is bad o LGPL fans think that "contamination" is good

Manuel M T Chakravarty writes:

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*sigh* Could we leave the rhetoric to Craig Mundie? Everybody thinks that "contamination" is bad. This is why such words are not helpful in a technical discussion.

Sorry, I wasn't trying to get into that sort of argument.

Ok, sorry for tripping over it, then.

I needed a word for and the only words I could think of are the ones the anti-GPL folk use. The quotes round the word were intended to mean that the meaning wasn't simply contaminate.

You can call LGPL, for example, "protective", as it protects the code against closed forks. If you think that this word is too positive, call it "restrictive" if you like. Cheers, Manuel