Re: [Bug-wget] Overly permissive hostname matching

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Ángel González <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 21/03/14 00:21, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>>
>> ...
>> (Sorry, I don't know. I'm not a lawyer, so my solution is usually to
>> avoid GPL code all together).
>
> That's a solution. Although it's a sad result from usage of a license
> intended to preserve freedoms.
For what its worth, I agree with you.

I can't afford lawyers on retainer to untangle things or to defend a
suite. Hence the reason would be happy to use a permissive GPL license
and assign any IP to GNU or FSF.

I don't take the position due to philosophy or perceived moral high
ground. Its simply economic for me. Anyone who has not experienced the
economics of a technology lawsuit is in for a shock.

In the past, I spent 10,000's on a lawyer in a technology case. I'm
not going through that again, unless I'm independently wealthy. (I
think I had the moral high ground since I was suing a chronic spammer
who harassed me for nearly 15 years. I tried for years to get off the
lists, and finally had to resort to the courts).

Jeff