Understanding the implication of GPL

[Karl Kuehn]

On Mar 23, 2007, at 1:36 PM, Richard Taubo wrote:

> Still there must a reason why Apple decided to drop wget for curl  
> in OS X.

	Without any insider knowledge, my guess is that Apple went for curl  
because of libcurl. You can build some great web-scraper programs  
with libcurl that include traversing redirects and authentication (I  
have done this myself). To my knowledge that can't be done with wget.  
wget is better for grabbing an entire web directory in one go, but  
for everything else my money is on curl.
	And once you already have libcurl there, why duplicate it with wget?  
My guess is that it was not un-included due to to the GPL.

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		Karl Kuehn
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