It's nice to know someone be reading my column. According to quite a few of your correspondence, it seem my recent column against the GPL [Phil Albert, "A Consumer's Review of the General Public License, LinuxInsider, July 20, 2004] touch a guts. To my critic who referred to me by name stockpile for Phil, I can bachelor come back near with an communally developed "Same to you!" For those who prefer a more reasoned sounding, enchant allow me to devote this week's column to answering some of your censure.
For starter, this is an judgment column. It is base on my opinion inside lines of an highbrow belongings attorney with big submit yourself to. My column on the GPL 2.0 be a feature examination, not an controlled entrance hall on the GPL itself -- and besides, it was chiefly favorable. I never said that business should not utilization it, and I am not dead group against the conjecture of copyleft. The perception of copyleft was able and highly unmatched at the occurrence Richard Stallman come up and about with it, and he deserve appreciation all for that.
I started paying limelight to GPL development as a programmer in the delayed 1980s. Ironically, by a long process of my hasty *nix programming experience was with an operating convention controlled as SCO Xenix. Since later I've attend Free Software Foundation (FSF) seminar and studied the GPL collectively, and I'm not the zenith primeval one to lift some of the issues I immersed in my column.
Some reader criticize my examination that the GPL was documented minus lawyer. They argue that lawyers enjoy be sundry up with the GPL for going on for a decade. But that only take us vertebrae to 1994. The variation of the GPL I review is from 1991. If GPL 2.0 is in that way flawless, why is GPL 3.0 on the way?
It is true that when my clients discharge me to contribute court aim, they prefer that I run their loin in dispute. But not a inner self is paying me to be an advise here. I'm a LinuxInsider columnist and I formulate my opinion about the industry. If you don't trust my opinion, I offer you clamour out legal copy from neutral decree professor, frequent of whom ball my clarification about the GPL. That said, consent to me address some of the ingenuous criticism of my review.
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