Pasting gpl notices in every file of a project, takes up space. better to put in license.txt in project root to encompass all source files. but most that don't like a license will refuse to use it and just copy paste the code anyways, and not say where they got it. (happens all the time). kinda makes me wonder why we got licenses for software in the first place, seems to be silly constructs of obstructionism.
GPLv3 don't allow you to control the software that runs on the custom hardware, inability to link to the code with out upsetting the original author.
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From: James Tabor jimtabor.rosdev@gmail.com To: ReactOS Development List ros-dev@reactos.org Sent: Saturday, October 4, 2008 12:38:23 AM Subject: Re: Reformat to the kernel coding style.
1st: No to v3! 2nd: No to v3! 3rd: No to v3!
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Alex Ionescu ionucu@videotron.ca wrote:
You basically assumed that a header from another file (probably copy- pasted) applies to the file you modified.
While I'm certainly being pedantic, and I admit it -- this shouldn't be a change to brush over.
Someone needs to figure out if the devs agree with v3 or not -- I
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