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[Richard Gaskin]

Dr. Hawkins wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> Dr. Hawkins wrote:
>
>> FWIW, the inventor of the GPL prefers "inherit" rather than "infect", since
>> the GPL is a choice authors can make and "infect" has negative connotations
>> that make that choice sound like an accident.
>
> An inheritance an also be disclaimed . . .
>
> As the author of the seminal Economic paper on the subject, I chose
> "viral" and "public" quite deliberately.

That's certainly your right, or anyone's right, regardless of any 
academic credentials.

Just the same, terms like "viral" and "infect" are unnecessarily 
provocative.


> I also wouldn't release or contribute any code to anything under GPL3
> (I have under GP2).  The patent gotchas are just to risky.

What are your patent concerns?

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