Python license (was RE: Python plug-ins for Adobe Products available)

[Grant Griffin]

Andrew Dalke wrote:

<interesting analogy snipped>

> In other words, if 99% of available software is GPL'ed, it's really
> hard to go through the effort to write a non-GPL'ed equivalent, given
> the amount of code which goes into things these days.

(The same holds true for a venereal disease. ;-)

Anyway, I guess it's a good thing GPL software isn't open source;
otherwise people would be able to figure out what the algorithms are,
then duplicate them in new code.  ;-)

But seriously, if the goal of GPL software really *is* to make it hard
*not* to write GPL, well...that doesn't sound much like "freedom" to me.

freedom-is-defined-as-a-lack-of-arbitrary-restrictions;-any-other
   -definition-scares-me-ly y',rs

=g2
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