Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 15:00:39 +0100 From: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> To: Benjamin Krueger <benjamin@macguire.net> Cc: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: First test of GPL in court Message-ID: <20020227150039.B16555@energyhq.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20020227054428.M12253@rain.macguire.net>; from benjamin@macguire.net on Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 05:44:28AM -0800 References: <20020227122820.A64839@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020227142005.A16555@energyhq.homeip.net> <20020227132417.B64839@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020227052928.L12253@rain.macguire.net> <20020227133748.C64839@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020227054428.M12253@rain.macguire.net>
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On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 05:44:28AM -0800, Benjamin Krueger wrote:
> While some folks might decide that is his personal goal, it isn't the sta=
ted
> goal of the GPL or GNU Foundation. Neither may be perfect, but lets not m=
ix
> facts with pleasure. ;)
Well, I appreciate having gcc et al as much as the next guy, but
GNU/Stallman has already shown many times that he is a control freak
and/or he smokes weird stuff. Do you remember the glibc affair? A lot of
projects are licensed as LGPL these days, I'm sure he'd had them
licensed under the GPL if it depended on him. He also behaved like a
fool when KDE had a problem (from his point of view) with the QT
licensing. Once the problem was solved no one ever heard any apologies
from him, of course. The latest flame he started was the .NET/Mono and
Gnome controversy.
FWIW he has never said you can't make profit selling GPL'ed software,
you can charge as much as you want for it, but I've never seen any
company making money on that, except a few Linux distribution vendors,
which anyway use code created by other people, so that doesn't really
count.
Cheers,
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Miguel Mendez - flynn@energyhq.homeip.net
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