license suggestions?

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> Greg Ewing <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> (GE) writes:

GE> Roman Suzi wrote:
>> 
>> Microsoft world accuses GPL of being "viral". 

GE> Well, the GPL *is* viral. The irksome thing about that
GE> Microsoft license is that it defines "viral" in a way
GE> that includes ALL open-source licenses, even though
GE> most of them are not in the least bit viral by the
GE> commonly understood meaning of the term in this
GE> context.

GE> So it's not the GPL they're slandering, it's all
GE> the other open-source licenses.

They also accuse it to be more viral than it is in reality. They seem to
suggest that e.g. code compiled with gcc also has to be GPL'ed.
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