Re: RMS at it again *sigh*
Henrik Olsen (henrik@iaeste.dk)
Wed, 3 Feb 1999 14:55:42 +0100 (CET)
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Serguei Koubouchine wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Alex Buell wrote:
>
> > I just read an article by RMS in which he is thinking of changing
> > libraries over from the LGPL to the GPL. This will have the unwanted
> > side-effect of driving commercial interests away from further ports of
> > proprietary software (potentially deny these ports' future conversion to
> > open source)
> >
> > RMS's article is at http://linuxtoday.com/stories/2754.html
> >
> > That man is starting to worry me. If he forces certain critical libraries
> > such as glibc into the GPL instead of the current LGPL, it spells deep
> > trouble for all.
>
> IMHO, he is a paranoid... LiGNUx, GPL for libraries, making commercial
> programs impossible on Linux... It's not a boost for a free software, it's a
> suicide for Linux :-((
Why should RMS care about Linux anyway, it's not GNU.
I just checked that article, it's not about changing the license of
existing libraries, something that the license prevents anyway, but about
using the GPL by default for new libraries instead of the LGPL.
If you try to actually read what's written instead of reacting on what you
think it says, there's a larger chance you'll be taken seriously.
--
Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S
URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/
Get the rest there.
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