On 10/19/06, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
"Critics of the GPL often describe it as being "viral"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft#Is_copyleft_.22viral.22.3F, based on the GPL terms that all derived works must in turn be licensed under the GPL." (from [[GNU General Public License]])
What should we do with that? {{fact}} tag it? Remove it? Leave it as is? Personally I'd say it should be removed. I just removed, without logging in, the whole paragraph, which was nothing more than speculation regarding this "perception". Let's see what happens.
21:59, 19 October 2006http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GNU_General_Public_License&oldid=82506819 75.202.44.46http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=75.202.44.46( Talkhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:75.202.44.46&action=edit ) ({{fact}}) 22:18, 19 October 2006http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GNU_General_Public_License&oldid=82510061 Haeleth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Haeleth (Talkhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Haeleth| contribshttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=Haeleth ) (rv deletion with misleading edit summary)
I'm not at all surprised. This is why I usually use the {{fact}} tag.
Anthony