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Re: GPL confusion
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Kenneth P. Turvey |
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Re: GPL confusion |
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Fri, 21 May 2004 23:59:35 -0500 |
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On 22 May 2004 01:08:13 GMT, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> wrote:
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> They are essentially selling a traditionally licensed "proprietary"
> product that is developed by the traditional sort of private corporate
> clique, but offering an option for you to "kick the tires" in advance.
> They are getting some cheap advertising out of "open source" people by
> having an occasionally-usable "open source" license for it.
I'm not sure how this is only "occasionally-usable". You can use the
database all you want, you just can't derive work from it and release
it under a closed source license.
I'm not sure how they could be more reasonable.
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Kenneth P. Turvey <kt@squeakydolphin.com>
Artificial Intelligence Algorithms Wiki
http://ai.squeakydolphin.com