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no; it's free software.no; it's free software.Posted Jul 29, 2004 13:16 UTC (Thu) by mattdm (subscriber, #18)In reply to: no; it's free software. by angdraug Parent article: OLS: An introduction to Conary
When will you people understand? [emphasis added] Who are the "you people" you are talking about? It's an OSI-approved license, for goodness sakes. I would really appreciate it if people would keep these ideological discussions off of the LWN comments. It's good that these discussions exist, but this isn't a useful place for them. Write a guest editorial if you want, but otherwise, post to slashdot or kuro5hin or somewhere. (Or perhaps better in this case, contact the OSI/Debian and try to convince them.) Let's keep the comments here to points of fact. (Is that an official rule? No. It'd just be nice.)
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no; it's free software. Posted Jul 29, 2004 16:12 UTC (Thu) by angdraug (subscriber, #7487) [Link] Who are the "you people" you are talking about? You in particular, and other people who shrug off license incompatibility as a non-issue. It's an OSI-approved license, for goodness sakes. OSI isn't God, they aren't even omniscient. Even worse, it is their practice of blindly approving problematic licenses that created this problem in the first place. It all started when they let Netscape get away with MPL instead of convincing them to use GPL. Isn't it ironic that Mozilla project was eventually dual-licensed under GPL anyway? I would really appreciate it if people would keep these ideological discussions off of the LWN comments. It is not merely ideological as long as it has far-reaching practical consequences. I apologize for inflammatory tone of my comment, but I still think that usefulness of a license chosen by a new free software project is relevant to the discussion of this project.
no; it's free software. Posted Aug 6, 2004 12:52 UTC (Fri) by dash2 (guest, #11869) [Link] Gordon Bennett. Even the Gnu people themselves encourage Perl developers use the Perl license rather than the pure GPL.
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