asymmetry?

[David Dillard]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel West [mailto:svosrp at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 6:50 PM
> To: license-discuss at opensource.org
> Subject: Re: asymmetry?

> So a license that enables and allows forking is good?

I would say yes.  In fact, I'd say that the OSD, in effect, mandates
that it be possible.



> I thought that was the whole point of the GPL, to prevent forking.

I don't know if that was the intent, though I doubt it.  But if it was
the intent, it certainly doesn't achieve that.



> Well and that's the deal. The GPL allows several different 
> companies to be in the Linux business. A dual license GPL 
> only allows one company to be fully in, say, the MySQL business.

Huh?  That's simply not the case.