gpl backlash?

[Wilfredo Sanchez]

| You could also write your own whiteroom implementation of readline. Why 
| aren't you considering this? The answer is easy: your time is too
| precious to reinvent everything. And readline is implemented  
pretty well
| already. But it has it's price (accepting the GPL) - if the price  
is too
| much, then leave it. This is not philosophy, this is business. Every 
| business deal is aimed to make profit, and the GPL-type of profit is to 
| have more and more good code available under the GPL.

  Yes, I'm aware of that.

  My point is that the goal of the GPL you outline above isn't  
necessarily the best thing for improving the software, which is also  
a goal of many developers.

	-Fred


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       Wilfredo Sanchez, wsanchez at apple.com
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          Technical Lead, Darwin Project
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