... and OS X and iOS are clearly a win for the FLOSS community?<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Alexander Solla <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alex.solla@gmail.com" target="_blank">alex.solla@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<div>
<br></div><div>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.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:03 PM, David Thomas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davidleothomas@gmail.com" target="_blank">davidleothomas@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Right. Like, if Linus hadn't bogged down the Linux kernel with the GPL license, it might have wound up as popular as BSD!<br>
<br>Both dynamics go on, and the question is which is more likely to dominate in a given case (and cumulatively).<br>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Jonathan Fischer Friberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:odyssomay@gmail.com" target="_blank">odyssomay@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div>On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Ramana Kumar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Ramana.Kumar@cl.cam.ac.uk" target="_blank">Ramana.Kumar@cl.cam.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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).<br>
</blockquote></div><div><br>I don't think it strengthens the community. If someone wants to make a change a library, <br>but not release the source, they cannot do that with GPL.<br>The idea behind GPL is that then, the change is forced to be released - which would, as you say, strengthen the community.<br>
However, I think what would happen instead is that the person would simply not use the library in the first place.<br><br>So in short: GPL does not make people become a part of the community - it pushes them away.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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Jonathan<br></font></span></div></div></div>
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