Re: FLTK? (OT: licenses)

[Ben Sunshine-Hill <sneftel@...>]

On 7/3/05, Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva <ventonegro@ventonegro.org> wrote:
>      Nonsense. You can choose not to use it. If it wasn't for the FSF a
> lot of free software we see today wouldn't have been written. 

There's no way of knowing that. Certainly the proliferation of
MIT-licensed software seems to indicate that not everyone wants to
place restrictions on how others use their software. Personally the
only time I've made something GPL, as opposed to more open, is when I
end up using GPLed components. So I'd offer the opposite opinion: If
it wasn't for the FSF, a lot of free software we see today would be
more free.

At the very least, many of the commercial projects (mostly games)
which embed Lua wouldn't have given it another glance if its license
had forced them to release their entire codebase. I know this in part
because many of them participate on this list. So perhaps encouraging
"giving back to the community" is not simply a matter of forcing
people to release their code?

Ben