simpleton comments on Disclosure vs. Bans: Reply to Robin Hanson - Less Wrong

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Comment author: simpleton 06 January 2010 03:59:15AM 0 points [-]

In practice, you can rarely use GPLed software libraries for development unless you work for a nonprofit.

That's a gross overgeneralization.

Comment author: ciphergoth 06 January 2010 11:21:07AM 1 point [-]

That seems to overstate it rather - it's a generalisation, but it's mostly true. Most software written for for-profit employers isn't GPL, and is often distributed even if only to a client or to other employees, so can't link to GPLed libraries directly. Still that's a long way from saying you can't use Cygwin at work. Sebastian Hagen's comment seems accurate to me.

Comment author: gwern 07 January 2010 07:49:40PM 0 points [-]

Distributing to fellow employees is still internal to the company, is it not? So that would not trigger the public source clause.