Re: Lets do something worthwhile

[Arun Sharma <arun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 08:23:32AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Arun Sharma [Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 01:12:50PM -0800]: 
> 
> > On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 02:57:26PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> 
> > > Not a bad idea at all ... in fact, a brilliant idea.  One question, would this
> > > also list apps in which Indians figure in the development _team_?  After all,
> > > most GPL software is collaboratively written, incorporating patches
> > > and modules written by dozens of people.
>  
> > I know you didn't mean it - but the above sentence seems to mix the
> > licensing and the methods of collaboration inappropriately.
>  
>  Not exactly.  All I said was that, as GPL'd software is open source, several
>  people contribute patches (take mutt, for example, with Volkov's nntp patch,
>  Roland Rosenfeld's compressed folders patch etc etc).
>  
>  These patches find their way into the main source tree sooner or later.
> 
>  Also, there are quite a few pieces of GPL'd code which _were_ written by a
>  team of people - which may / may not have included an Indian.
>  
>  That was all I was saying.  If I'm wrong (I'm not a licensing expert at all)
>  please do let me know.

Everything you say above is true. I was suggesting that people use "GPL
software" almost synonymously with "free software" or "open source" 
software. It's like saying "Redhat Linux" in a context where "Linux"
would've worked just fine.

	-Arun