You can still sell you program in you link to GPL'd code. That is of course, if the licensing allows for commercial licensing. There's a lot of GPL products out their that do this, and seems to be a good business idea. You make the open source community happy AND you can sell your product to companies. Win-Win. That being said, I'm not sure if paying for Scala would make more people want to use it (as it must be good if they're charging) or less (as most people want everything + the kitchen sink for free). The real issue here is how to we get a fast collections API, not arguing of licensing details. Let's assume we all have enough sense not to commit illegal activites. Let's not argue what stealing is. Let's just respect the authors of code, and figure out how/where we can get a fast collections API.
My $.02 are that we should try to obtain/create code that's compatable with the existing Scala license so there aren't any issues. And don't borrow code without discussing it with the authors.
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Geoffrey Alan Washburn
<geoffrey.washburn@...> wrote:
Sean McDirmid wrote:
Isn't that what GPL is for? Also, you can link your applications to a GPL library and still have the application be commercial, you just can't modify/create a derivative of the library that is closed source.
