Is the SCSL a good step, or a lame attempt to innoculate against 'real' open
source stuff?
-- Ernie P.
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>From: "Robert S. Thau" <rst@ai.mit.edu>
>To: Mark Kuharich <mkuharich@BESTNET.com>
>Cc: "'Robert Harley'" <Robert.Harley@inria.fr>, "'FoRK a Unix process'"
<FoRK@xent.ICS.uci.edu>
>Subject: RE: Java source released
>Date: Thu, Feb 25, 1999, 8:48 AM
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>Mark Kuharich writes:
> > GPL purists say the SCSL doesn't go far enough. If you sell a Java product,
> > you'll have to pay Sun on the back end. A razorblades strategy. Also, if you
> > donate bug fixes, there is no guarantee that your fix will be redistributed
> > to the world. Regardless, it's a step in the right direction and a heck of a
> > lot better than anything Microsoft has
>
>The "usual" license flamewar in the free software community is GPL
>vs. BSD-license (or BSD-ish license, depending on who you're talking
>to), but I think the BSD(ish)-license partisans would be as much put
>out by these SCSL terms than the GPL party. So I'm not sure why
>you're putting this solely on "GPL purists".
>
>rst
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