[Liberty-eiffel] Fwd: Examples of GPL success, or lax license failure

[Paolo Redaelli]

RMS is asking for examples of GPL success, and lax license failure.
Do you think that Small/SmartEiffel can be one of this examples?
I think so, since it "forced" ISE to release their compiler under GPL. According to the Wikipedia page ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EiffelStudio ) their entire IDE is now GPLed.
    Paolo

-------- Messaggio originale --------

Oggetto:	Examples of GPL success, or lax license failure
Data:	Thu, 22 Aug 2013 21:51:51 -0400
Mittente:	Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
Rispondi-a:	address@hidden, address@hidden
A:	address@hidden

We are trying to collect examples of GPL success, and lax license failure.

GPL success means the fact that a program is under the GPL has convinced
some developer to contribute to the free world who would otherwise
have been likely to make a proprietary extended version.

Lax license failure means cases where a developer made a useful
extension that we wish were free, but made it proprietary.

Please send your examples to address@hidden
and put "Examples of GPL success" as the Subject field.

You don't need to send lots of detail.  If you have time, please
verify the facts to make sure that what happened really is what you
think.  But if you can't do that, please send the example anyway.

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