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They say they drop the GPL to avoid confusion ... i.e., they're caving in to FUD about GPL.
by andreasvc 14y ago
They say they drop the GPL to avoid confusion ... i.e., they're caving in to FUD about GPL.
- SoftwareMaven 14y agoMy guess (with no inside knowledge): they are dropping GPL because many companies have a strict "no GPL" policy and, unfortunately, those companies don't understand the notion of duel licensing. Furthermore, that confusion only harms the JQuery project, as the philosophical a aspects of the GPL aren't driving their open source philosophy. So it's not exactly FUD about the GPL. Companies can have very legitimate reasons for wanting to stay away from it. I would call it a more general legal ignorance on the companies' parts with pragmatism on jquery's.
- justincormack 14y agoIt is very unclear with Javascript what a derived work is and what linking means, unlike C. You could argue that your whole website would become GPL if you linked with jquery under GPL terms, including the text, logos etc, even though most people do not want to put documentation under GPL (because of the attribution terms).