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Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey
- To: tolj@uni-duesseldorf.de
- Subject: Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey
- From: DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com>
- Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 20:24:28 -0500
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> > Besides, it doesn't matter if it's easy or not. The GPL is a legal ...
>
> of course you are right. But this may be considered as an optimal
> solution that doesn't match reality in some cases, like normal life
> doesn't.
Yup. For a lot of people it's not practical to write a custom license
for a package. The GPL is a good license for a lot of situations, and
it's been thoroughly reviewed by lawyers already, so a lot of people
just adopt it as-is. Unfortunately, a lot of people adopt it without
fully understanding it. That doesn't mean that you can ignore it
because it's inconvenent.
> In my opinion not a very representative example for our aims :)
No, but one example is enough to explain the GPL.
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