Re: People who develop with MySQL and/or other GPL based code
Re: People who develop with MySQL and/or other GPL based code
- Subject: Re: People who develop with MySQL and/or other GPL based code
- From: Shawn Erickson <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:40:01 -0800
On Jan 5, 2004, at 6:51 AM, Alastair Houghton wrote:
There has also been a good deal of FUD from Microsoft and their cohort,
who typically tell the press that GPL'd software is dangerous because
it might force someone to distribute the source code for their
proprietary software (for example, if their developers accidentally
link with some GPL'd code); this is, however, not the case... you can
simply stop distributing the software in question until you have had
the opportunity to replace all GPL-covered code with new non-GPL'd
code.
Stopping the distribution of a product while you replace the
GPL-covered code is really what scares folks. Talk about huge risk for
a commercial software product.
This is what feeds folks fears about the GPL.
- Shawn
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