[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: tie-knot library

[David Thomas]

... and OS X and iOS are clearly a win for the FLOSS community?


On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Alexander Solla <alex.solla at gmail.com>wrote:

> As a matter of fact, BSD is far more popular on the desktop than GPL.  And
> has a huge share of the mobile market.  Witness: OS X, iOS.
>
> And none of this has anything to do with Haskell.  Petr can release *his*
> code with any license he wants.  Some licenses fit into *this* ecosystem
> better than others.  Suggestions have been made and we can all move on.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:03 PM, David Thomas <davidleothomas at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Right.  Like, if Linus hadn't bogged down the Linux kernel with the GPL
>> license, it might have wound up as popular as BSD!
>>
>> Both dynamics go on, and the question is which is more likely to dominate
>> in a given case (and cumulatively).
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Jonathan Fischer Friberg <
>> odyssomay at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Ramana Kumar <Ramana.Kumar at cl.cam.ac.uk
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Using the GPL (or a strong copyleft free license) strengthens the free
>>>> software community of which I thought the Haskell community is a part (or
>>>> at least intersects substantially).
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't think it strengthens the community. If someone wants to make a
>>> change a library,
>>> but not release the source, they cannot do that with GPL.
>>> The idea behind GPL is that then, the change is forced to be released -
>>> which would, as you say, strengthen the community.
>>> However, I think what would happen instead is that the person would
>>> simply not use the library in the first place.
>>>
>>> So in short: GPL does not make people become a part of the community -
>>> it pushes them away.
>>>
>>> Jonathan
>>>
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