After takin' a swig o' grog, Hyman Rosen belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
> ZnU wrote:
>> I understand that the FSF is really, really hung up on every detail of
>> the GPL, but frankly, they're fanatics.
>
> The details of the GPL are necessary to prevent bad-faith actors
> from taking GPLed code and distributing it to users while preventing
> those users from exercising the four freedoms. It is important to
> the FSF that such bad-faith actors be stopped. There are other people,
> of which you may be one, who are less concerned with bad-faith actors
> and simply want to have a community of free or open source, even if
> parts of that code wind up in non-free programs. Other licenses such
> as BSD or Apache might be more appropriate for them.
If it weren't for the GPL, Linux and much open-source software would have
gone just about /nowhere/.
--
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow
in Australia.
-- Charles Schulz
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