Re: Fuzzy machine learning framework v1.2

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Sat, 02 Jun 2012 10:06:23 +0200, Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> a  
écrit:
> Is there evidence for "the doubt about the GPL is increasing"?

Well, “increasing” may be misleading as it does not explicitly express an  
amount by which. I should have said “visibly increasing” (enough to be  
visible). I have a web connection at home since about 2005, and at that  
time, there was near to no visible opposition to the GPL which was  
glorified every where. Questioning seems more frequent to me since some  
time (two or three years?). Some big enough examples I have in mind, is an  
affair with WordPress themes designers, who suddenly was forced to release  
their works under the GPL, after multiple years selling their works under  
another license (someone lately noticed a trick implying they now had to  
release their work under GPL). This case made some noise, as this themes  
author made a living from it. Another one, is Aqsis (a RenderMan  
processor), which migrated its license from GPL to BSD (the author said if  
contributors don't agree, then their contributions will simply be removed  
 from Aqsis). There was a story about Perle and a dual licensing said to be  
“the Perle way to undermine the GPL virus”. If you search the web for “GPL  
is not free”, you will get a reasonable amount of results for that exact  
sentence. From time to time, I see some other kinds of questioning,  
sometime dealing with commercial activities (in fact impossible, and the  
contradiction with what the FSF says leave people with a bad feeling),  
sometime about whither or not the GPL really protects authors theft  
(project hijacking and the like), and others. Either this was not their 5  
to 6 years ago, or else I've missed it at that time, just to say I feel to  
see more now than before.

To not talk also about miss-interpretations, when some people choose to  
release under the GPL because they believe the GPL is “this and that”, and  
is not, which is source of confusion, and confusion leads to  
recriminations too.

Seems like the ancient God now looks like a simple guy among any others.

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“Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [1]
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