I’m helping to edit what’s turning out to be a shockingly good book on the legal issues around open source, from the developer’s perspective, which Van Lindberg is finishing up and which O’Reilly will be publishing. When it comes out, you will want to purchase it. It’s incredibly well-written and expresses things much more clearly than I’ve yet seen in my 10 years within the open-source community.
As a case in point, Van explicates the Great Divide between those who love and loathe the GPL by citing a post on the Python mailing list about a controversial bit of code called setuptools:
[T]his information is VERY helpful. It makes it blindingly obvious to me now that the difference between loving and hating setuptools is whether you’re *intentionally* using it, or whether it shows up in your ecosystem uninvited….
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