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:::: Well, i can understand the 'spirit' of those gnu licences, but the gory details are beyond me, so that's why i've written down things my way; it permits me to add my own spirit, which boils down to: use it any way you want, as long as you don't mess around with the files in a way that it backfires on me or users.--[[User:Hagen|Hans]] 17:38, 9 Nov 2004 (CET)
Actually, I believe ConTeXt should be under some sort of Artistic License or even the LaTeX license. The GPL is not particularly suited (In fact, I believe that it is not suited for most software that *is* released under it).
The problem: Suppose H.Dumb changes a few core macros in syst-gen.tex and redistributes this new context distro. It turns out that there is a bug in the macros by Dumb that (say) makes TeX fail on documents that contain more that 100 pages. He redirects users to Pragma-ADE for ConTeXt support because he doesnt want to do be bothered with it. Therefore, the support calls will appear on ntg-context, and ConTeXt as a whole gets bad publicity.
Under GPL, there is no way to stop H.Dumb from doing what he is doing. Even worse: the GPL does not even *allow* an additional clause that says that H. Dumb cannot do this sort of thing. The implication is (in my opinion) that you should *not ever* release anything under GPL that you (personally) feel responsible for or are attached to. [[User:Taco|Taco]]
