Understanding the implication of GPL

[LuKreme]

On 23-Mar-2007, at 11:47, Karl Kuehn wrote:
> 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.

I think the simpler explanation is that curl is a bette tool.

Yes, I actaully prefer wget for my uses and I prefer its syntax, but  
for most things

alias wget='curl -O '

works.  I still use wget for slurping, but acknowledge it's an  
outmoded and outdated tool.  A bit like using lynx instead of links.

libcurl is only part of the story.

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