Re: GNU licenses

[Richard Tobin]

In article <1157489942.432984.112620@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
 <mike4ty4@yahoo.com> wrote:
>but I don't understand the rationale
>for MAKING THE LICENSE THAT WAY, why it demands the original
>code become GNU ***and be USELESS for non-GNU projects without
>making them GNU***. It's that last part in asterisks that I hate. The
>distribution of said combined work should have NO BEARING on
>ANY other works that have NO 3rd-party code in them but are based
>on ORIGINAL code from the combined work!

The people who wrote the GNU licence wrote it to further their own
goals, which are not the same as yours.  I am at a loss as to why you
think they should have written it in such as way as to help you
achieve things they don't want to support.

-- Richard