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It's obvious what's wrong

It's obvious what's wrong

Posted Oct 20, 2005 3:07 UTC (Thu) by hbo (guest, #13692)
In reply to: It's obvious what's wrong by smurf
Parent article: FSFE on the new "shared source" licenses

No, creating their own GPL-like license is the hypocritical act. It's hypocritical because they are doing one thing - creating a GPL-like license - and saying another - equating the GPL with communism. Adopting the GPL would be admitting rhetorical defeat and changing position, but their words and deeds would have to align in that case.

Wouldn't they? 8)


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