Re: benchmarks (was Re: Progress on a Classpath mauve suite?)

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Archie Cobbs wrote:
> Stephen Crawley wrote:
>
> > > I agree that academic credit is very important. Again, I belive that 
> > > to be a part of proper academic conduct, rather than something that 
> > > needs to be explicitely enforced in a software license. 
>
>
> Hah.. so why do we need the GPL? Isn't sharing your modifications
> with the world a natural consequence of good software conduct? :-) :-)

s/world/recepients of modified works/g and I agree. :)

We need the GPL because many developers in the past chose to not allow 
sharing of your modifications of their works, so the GPL serves as a 
tool to carve out a free hacking space without that restriction. I blame 
it on poor education of many developers in the past in 'good software 
development conduct', but all the talk about Open Source, Free Software 
and all that will hopefully fix it :)

cheers,
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