Fedora philosophy (was ATI video comes out of the closet)

[Les Mikesell]

Matthew Saltzman wrote:

>> I think that the objectives for the GPL license and well known and have
>> been for quite some time.
> 
> And I don't want to have that discussion again.  But for developers who
> use the GPL but aren't GPL fanatics, I would ask them to consider a
> "FOSS exception" such as the one MySQL includes for the GPL version of
> their software
> (http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/foss-exception.html).

Better yet, dual-license it with something less restrictive than the GPL 
so fanatics on either side can't restrict each other from using the 
code.  Larry Wall is a smart guy and figured this out for perl long ago, 
and everyone has benefited from it.


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   Les Mikesell
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