Viral licensing

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

A few years back, Microsoft was jumping up and down and trying to convince us 
that open source, and the General Public Licence, in particular, was leading to the 
End-Of-Computing-As-We-Know-It, since the GPL was viral, and any software 
touched by open source tools would get "infected" by the GPL.

That argument still surfaces from time to time.  Seemingly, the movie industry 
seems to have heard of it, and thinks it's a good idea.  For *them* to try:

"Why Our Civilization's Video Art and Culture is Threatened by the MPEG-LA"

http://bit.ly/9dFMfl  (OS news)


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