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Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop
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At 03:06 AM 12/18/2001, Nils Holland wrote:

>One thing I do agree with, though,
>is that all this licensing stuff is something the project could better do
>without. 

I agree 100%! And the only way to be free of it is simply not to 
incorporate GPLed code. Otherwise, we WILL be bitten. As I've mentioned in 
an earlier posting, it is a fundamental part of the FSF's agenda and 
philosophy to oppose not only the existence of commercial developers but 
also the existence of ANYTHING that offers aid or comfort to these 
"enemies." (Yes, that means the BSDs, since they offer an alternative to 
developers who want to use freely available code rather than 
reimplementing -- needlessly -- from scratch.) This makes the presence of 
the GPL -- the FSF's primary instrument of warfare against all that it 
does not control -- a clear and present danger to the BSDs. To end
the licensing concerns once and for all, we must remove the GPL.

--Brett


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