On 4/12/22 15:15, dmccunney wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 2:25 AM Rob Landley <r...@landley.net> wrote: > > And speaking of PostgreSQL: > https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/trademark-actions-against-the-postgresql-community-2302/
My link was intended to demonstrate a historical pattern of behavior on the part of the Free Software Foundation, and how their definition of "freedom" involves coercion to force people into GPL licensing when they didn't actually want to. I could also have used https://www.linux.com/news/gpl-requirement-could-have-chilling-effect-derivative-distros or http://landley.net/notes-2012.html#11-01-2012 or a bunch of others to illustrate this point, but that link was the chronologically oldest one I could find with a quick search. (He's explicitly explained why Readline in particular is GPL not GPL, but the closest I could find was https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/stallman.html#:~:text=Readline which is just in-passing. There's an actual writeup on it somewhere. The readline one was "bait", the binutils one was "trickery", the mepis one was intimidation (threat of bankruptcy)... sort of escalating over the years. Don't get me started on Bradley's SFC actions or the 1000+ message LKML thread...) I'm not sure what your link is attempting to demonstrate. That other people file IP suits too? That this isn't the only time that organization's wound up in court? Rob _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list Toybox@lists.landley.net http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net