[darcs-users] Re: Darcs API?

Aaron Denney wnoise at ofb.net
Sun Apr 17 19:03:11 UTC 2005


On 2005-04-17, Jamie Webb <j at jmawebb.cjb.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 11:43:14AM +0200, Leif Frenzel wrote:
>> > Personally, unless you give me at least the rights the GPL gives me, I'm
>> > probably not interested in your app anyway.  So why would you not
>> > release a plugin under GPL?
>> It restricts my rights still too much, namely, my rights to choose a license
>> and (more important) to choose which rights I want to give others who use my
>> software.
>
> Trouble is, by choosing the GPL, David has made a decision (as is
> /his/ right) not to allow Darcs to be used in commercial software. The
> EPL is more permissive than the GPL. Thus if you were able to include
> Darcs in an EPL-licensed program, someone else could then make a
> commercial program out of it, violating David's wishes.

s/used/distributed/
s/commercial/proprietary/

Or, at least that's what the GPL requires, whether or not those are
David's wishes.

-- 
Aaron Denney
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