Markdown licensing

John Gruber gruber at fedora.net
Mon Dec 13 12:10:45 EST 2004


european bob <bob at wolfwall.com> wrote on 12/13/04 at 10:28am:

> Moving away from the GPL seems somewhat akin to throwing the baby out
> with the bathwater; the GPL's benefits are more than just the protective
> copyleft (the patents clause, for example). 

I should note that the people I'm concerned about are those who are
publishing their own open source projects, and would like to include
Markdown.

I wonder if switching to the LGPL would satisfy them?

-J.G.


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