Hi
When RMS wrote GPL he kept in mind how a drug seller sells drug he at first
give free drugs & when ppl get affected he take as much money as can from
them
Linking a GPLed lib with a closed exe is same thing at first they will get
you addicted then they will tell to get extra features you have to use thier
libs.
Also if any body can not give any thing to free software / Open source world
he/she does have no right take benefit IMHO.
Anirban Biswas
On Saturday 24 Apr 2004 20:55, Anupam Jain wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> In light of the recent discussions about the Apple iTunes issue..
>
> I think the GNU GPL does not allow distributing an object binary (i.e.
> closed source software) that can be linked with a free GPLd (or even
> LGPLd?) library to form an executable.. Does that not seem unfair? After
> all the distributers are not actually breaking the law by running tainted
> code but are only providing the means (tools) for others to do the same
> easily. So shouldn't *truly free* software not have this restriction?
>
> - AJ
>
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> : Any porters out there should feel happier knowing that DEC is shipping
> : me an AlphaPC that I intend to try getting linux running on: this will
> : definitely help flush out some of the most flagrant unportable stuff.
> : The Alpha is much more different from the i386 than the 68k stuff is, so
> : it's likely to get most of the stuff fixed.
>
> It's posts like this that almost convince us non-believers that there
> really is a god.
(A follow-up by [EMAIL PROTECTED], Anthony Lovell, to Linus's
remarks about porting)
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