RMS at it again *sigh*

Roger Espel Llima (espel@llaic.u-clermont1.fr)
Wed, 3 Feb 1999 16:08:32 +0100

> 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)
>
> 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.

Re-read the article, he explicitly says that for libraries like glibc
the LGPL makes sense. He's arguing for GPL for "special utility"
libraries like readline or GMP (which are both under GPL already, AFAIK).

In other words, he's preaching to the converted, which isn't a bad thing
to do anyway.

-- 
Roger Espel Llima, espel@llaic.u-clermont1.fr
http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/espel/index.html


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