One person who agrees with you... [LWN.net]

One person who agrees with you...

Posted Sep 7, 2006 20:20 UTC (Thu) by dwheeler (subscriber, #1216)
In reply to: One person who agrees with you... by GreyWizard
Parent article: The future of NetBSD

I'm not sure if you meant to "start a fight", but if I take your statement literally, that is of course true. Stallman has been VERY consistent in insisting that his goal is NOT universal use of the GPL (or LGPL), but that his goal is universal deployment of Free software (as the FSF defines it). I even specifically noted that Stallman occasionally encourages the use of non-GPL licenses in my essay Make Your Open Source Software GPL-Compatible. Or Else., which I originally posted in 2002. There I note the same example you did - Stallman encouraged the switch of the Ogg folks from a GPL-style license to a BSD-style license, because of the larger circumstances they were in.

(Log in to post comments)

One person who agrees with you...

Posted Sep 7, 2006 21:05 UTC (Thu) by GreyWizard (subscriber, #1026) [Link]

I was responding to emkey's comment, which said, "Where I differ from some people is in my belief that there are in fact cases where the GPL either isn't the best choice or isn't realistic." I don't know if emkey meant to write "free software" instead of "GPL" there, but that comment was in reply to yours about the difference between the BSD and the GNU GPL licences so I assumed there was no mistake.