> > Simon Cozens <simon@brecon.co.uk> writes: > >Benjamin Stuhl (lists.bootstrap): > >>>And, more importantly, why? > >> > >>One word: GPL > > > >LPGL, actually. > > > >But we're going to throw away all the good development out there > >for *POLITICAL* reasons? Are you truly barking mad? > > I know I would not be allowed to use GPL-only thing for day job - we cannot > give a customer a chip-design system written in gpled-perl6 if that requires > us to give customer source and allows customer to give system to a competitor. well, if glib was used, would that mean the perl source code would necessarily need to be GPLed? Where does 'derived works' end? Ie: if I write an office suite in glib - does that mean I need to release that office suite's source code? Ed