Quoting Tzeng, Nigel H. (nigel.tz...@jhuapl.edu): > I dislike the presumption that the use of GPL implies support for the FSF > viewpoint. A perspective that the FSF fosters as evidence of how much > they dominate the FOSS world as opposed to say BSD/Apache. > > Yes, WE all know this is not true.
I find that assumption vexing enough that, at one point, I proposed to do a lecture on 'Proven Ways to Use GPLv2 as the Core of a Proprietary Software Business Model'. (I don't know for sure what the backlash would have been.) But anyway, yes. I tend to stress, somewhat less provocatively, that the only actual meaning of any legal instrument lies in what it _does_, and that the views and intentions of the instrument's author are irrelevant to the matter at hand -- rather like if I drop a heavy book about Jainism on your foot. ;-> _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss