Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/02/25/09:12:40
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 horizonx AT arbitragex DOT net wrote:
> One side interest of our project is to see if the bazaar style development
> model can be extended to commercial semi-open source software and to
> business building. The reason it's semi-open is because there are no more
> compelling reasons to make public a profitable trading system than placing
> your private credit card information under the GPL.
I don't understand what you mean here at all. It sounds like your
motivation for not making your source code 'fully' open is that would
require users to copyleft their *credit card numbers*.
If that is what you're worried about, have no fear. The GPL strictly
refers to the code, not its data. Furthermore, consider that a
copylefted public key encryption system exists, called gnuPGP. If
such a GPL'd program wasn't secure for the data put into it, people
wouldn't use it for security.
That said, I don't understand why you wouldn't want to GPL your
trading system. Sounds like an excellent case for bazaar development
indeed - everyone who participates in the trading would be interested
in seeing that the code was air-tight!
ben taylor
mithras AT dhp DOT com / http://www.dhp.com/~mithras
"If you buy a person a ticket, they'll see a movie that day.
But if you show a person how to sneak in, they'll see movies for a lifetime."
Mark Stanley, _Freefall_, http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/
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