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<LI><em>Subject</em>: Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: Caliban Tiresias Darklock <<A HREF="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 00:23:47 -0800</LI>
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On 11:54 AM 11/17/1999 -0600, I personally witnessed Greg Miller jumping up
to say:
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>That's why I never release
>anything as GPL--it smells too much like a legal trap designed to make
>it look like generosity when it isn't. LGPL and MPL aren't so bad,
>although I don't use them myself.
I find that the major problem with the GPL is that it "infects" other
programs. I'm also concerned about looking too much at such projects,
because if I get an idea from some project released under the GPL it could
technically be considered derivative. Therefore, I have to GPL it, or I'm
an "enemy" of the always zealous, often militant, and sometimes completely
irrational open source community.
This is one of the many reasons I have to hate intellectual property; if
I've looked at games X and Y based on game Z which all use select() loops
very similar to mine... how exactly do I prove that I didn't just copy
theirs and make some minor changes? How many ways can you write a select()
loop, for God's sake? One of them is the "right" solution. Intellectual
property assumes guilt based on opportunity; if I have seen the source to
codebase X, then I have been effectively barred from using whatever that
codebase does without providing the appearance that I stole it from them...
even if I never looked at that part of the code. If my implementation is
close enough to theirs, then I could be considered as having plagiarised
their code, even when the implementation in question is the OBVIOUS
solution to the problem!
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00275" HREF="msg00275.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00282" HREF="msg00282.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00284" HREF="msg00284.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00307" HREF="msg00307.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>,
Greg Miller <a href="mailto:gmiller#classic-games,com">gmiller#classic-games,com</a>, Wed 17 Nov 1999, 21:24 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00356" HREF="msg00356.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Thu 18 Nov 1999, 17:01 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00375" HREF="msg00375.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00303" HREF="msg00303.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00326" HREF="msg00326.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>,
Matthew Mihaly <a href="mailto:diablo#best,com">diablo#best,com</a>, Thu 18 Nov 1999, 00:32 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00329" HREF="msg00329.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>,
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