GPL-ed projects and politics

Posted Sep 25, 2006 20:55 UTC (Mon) by k8to (guest, #15413)
In reply to: GPL-ed projects and politics by mingo
Parent article: Kernel developers' position on GPLv3

Yes, Stallman can be a crazy nutter unwilling to accept outside input.
Still, the response I am seeing from you and the other kernel devs is
similarly simplistic. Because Stallman does "politics" which are bad,
changing proposed by Stallman are "political".

If you don't believe in politics, argue against the new controls being
added to GPLv3 from a practical viewpoint.

If you _do_ believe in politics, argue against the new controls being
added to GPLv3 from a political viewpoint.

Simply calling them "politics" comes off as a refusal to address them at
all.