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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 09:11:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Mithras <mithras AT dhp DOT com>
To: horizonx AT arbitragex DOT net
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, ArbitrageX AT yahoogroups DOT com
Subject: Re: How possible and how easy?
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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."
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