On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:51:37AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > his absolutism also causes people to see BSD as a "problem", a > "social failure". > > If some people think that, they did not get it from me. I do not call > BSD either of those things. I say that releasing free software under > a non-copyleft free software license is basically good (i.e., not > evil), but that using copyleft is better. > > recently we saw theft of BSD to GPL, and a large part of the > GPL community thinks there's no problem with that, that the > BSD community is being "petty" to make an issue out of it. > > I don't think it is wrong in general to relicense code from BSD to > GPL. However, in some cases I think it is more useful not to do so, > in order to contribute changes back to the original BSD-licensed > project.
It is not just wrong it is fucking illegal. So much for ethics. > > If such an issue arises for a GNU package, and people think it is not > doing the most useful thing, I will look at the issue and then if > necessary discuss it with the developers. Go talk to some of those wireless developers in Linux. You'll find plenty examples of unethical behavior and blatant breaking the law. > > However, if such an issue arises for a program which is not a GNU > package, I will not get involved unless the developers ask me for > advice. > Your advice is as useful as your recommendations. Last time the wireless issue was brought up you simply declined to comment. Ethics in action again! I don't know what your agenda is but it stinks. Tell us, who pays you again?
