Markdown licensing

[Stephen Haberman]

> On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:15:48PM -0600, Stephen Haberman wrote:
> 
> > Nonetheless, due to the GPL's ambiguities and severe ramifications if
> > abused, where even you as project owner have to guess when interpreting
it,
> > in any commercial setting I've been in, we generally stay very far away
from
> > any GPL'd code. If anything it is as a matter of principal, and not
relying
> > on our/the project owner's guesses about the GPL's interpretation.
> 
> I understand your caution, but if Apple can release Mac OS X with
> Gigabytes of GPL code included (likewise for Sun with Solaris)
> then perhaps you are being a *teensy* bit paranoid:-)

Hm. Good point.

I didn't know any of the Apple/Mac OS X code was GPL'd. My naïve assumption
was, again showing the little I know about Apple, since it generally came
from a BSD base, it would have stuck with the BSD license. New one on me.

- Stephen