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On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:24:44 +0800
KHMan <keinhong@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/30/2012 6:59 PM, Ousmane Roland Yonaba wrote:
> > Sorry...
> > I've posted it on Pastebin...so that everybody can see the source
> > code easily... Link: http://pastebin.com/SM7bmWk2
> 
> Anyone can sit down and write an OOP thingy in a short time. 
> Similar methods of doing OOP in Lua surely can be hacked out by a 
> great many other people, hence, a more permissive license than GPL 
> is more appropriate. (But of course, it is your right to slap 
> whatever license you want on it.)
> 
> This is a thing that is readily reproducible by a person of skill 
> in Lua. Someone is sure to do something similar. A GPLed game for 
> instance I have no issues with, but a wee bit of code surely does 
> not need a gold-plated label?
> 
> Putting a GPL label on the download is a sure way for a lot of us 
> to avoid it like plague. You should have marked the pastebin stuff 
> as GPL too, if you were properly ethical about such things.

KHMan, why are you so angry? I actually agree with you that for simple
stuff the MIT license is better, but questioning the guy's ethics
because he left the license off a pastebin? Maybe it's just me, but I'd
be more likely to attribute that "omission" to forgetfulness or not
thinking it would be important to the viewers.

SteveT