Frank Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The people think:
> > " Hmm, The GPL was written long ago. All this free SW is there and will
> > be free forever.
>
> Will it be ?
>
> If you're getting into license fasicm, you end up with projects like this:
>
> http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/
And this is even a case that would be allowed by the GPL.
> The driver situation under Linux hasn't improved in the last few years
> anymore, and that's due to GPL extremists. Wrt. to that, some of the Linux
> developers are fighting a holy war, actively ignoring the needs of the
> users...
One reason to not call the software they produce "free".
> Linux gets the publicity. But there's a huge amount of opensource code out
> there, for Windows, for BSD, for scientific purposes - none of that is
> usually being pulled into the spotlight. Never seen a presentation on e.g.
We need to either pull OpenSolaris into the spotlight the same way as Linux
people do or we need to inform about the advantages of the CDDL and the
pitfalls of the GPL. In case Sun tries to be "just serious", OpenSolaris
may lose the same way as BSD loses against Linux. Not because of worse software
found in BSD but because of less publicity.
> the Linux license forbids me doing it. The GPL is extremely restrictive -
> you're against us unless you're with us. The "free as in freedom"
> discussion is sophism, and missing the point. The GPL isn't there to
> protect the interests of users, but to allow the developer ultimate
> control about the code. Yes - control, not freedom.
The freedom is a sensitive good. If you try to lock it up in order to save it,
it dies immediately.
> Btw, yes, I have contributed GPL code.
> Sometimes, having that kind of control is a very nice thing :)
Me too, and I still believe that the GPL was the right way to go
in the early 1990s. But for wow ,the world did change and the GPL is
neither the best solution anymore nor do I like to have endless discussions
with the GPL extremists.
Jörg
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