From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,25457a5aee9eaa04 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Received: by 10.68.220.230 with SMTP id pz6mr5895452pbc.3.1338632758101; Sat, 02 Jun 2012 03:25:58 -0700 (PDT) Path: l9ni10836pbj.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Fuzzy machine learning framework v1.2 Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2012 12:25:56 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <4fc4fd1c$0$294$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <3MDSK83K41059.2087037037@reece.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: 6flBXUMgZrqdd9515v8bzw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.00 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Date: 2012-06-02T12:25:56+02:00 List-Id: Le Sat, 02 Jun 2012 10:06:23 +0200, Simon Wright a = = =C3=A9crit: > Is there evidence for "the doubt about the GPL is increasing"? Well, =E2=80=9Cincreasing=E2=80=9D may be misleading as it does not expl= icitly express an = amount by which. I should have said =E2=80=9Cvisibly increasing=E2=80=9D= (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 relea= se = their works under the GPL, after multiple years selling their works unde= r = 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 remove= d = from Aqsis). There was a story about Perle and a dual licensing said to= be = =E2=80=9Cthe Perle way to undermine the GPL virus=E2=80=9D. If you searc= h the web for =E2=80=9CGPL = is not free=E2=80=9D, you will get a reasonable amount of results for th= at 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 =E2=80=9Cthis and = that=E2=80=9D, 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.= -- = =E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1] =E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.= =E2=80=9D [1] [1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers= ity