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Subject: Re: RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!"
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Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 09:53:32 -0000
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What's interesting is that Stallman asserts a GPL'd kernel wouldn't be
necessary to any "GNU operating system" ("Today, GNU runs with various
kernels . . . It is basically the same system, whichever kernel you use"),
and that at no point does he assert the moral or political necessity for a
copylefted mode of licensing, but merely lists provisions common to both the
GPL and BSDL ("users are free to run it, study it and change it . . .
redistribute it . . . and publish modified versions").

My apologies to the list for the shameless use of comic hyperbola.

I'm off to shoot myself.


Michael





Brent Glass wrote:

> Stallman doesn't say that anywhere in the article you reference.