Re: [off topic] Re: Licensing issues

[Terry Dawson <terry@albert.animats.net>]

On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 05:24:21PM -0400, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:

>     t> Stallman didn't get the GNU project kicking along by being
>     t> compromising on licensing freedom.
> 
> Then why did we have so many flame wars over the LGPL?

Is this a trick question? Because he was uncompromising?

There is a big difference between GPL->LGPL and Open Documents->Exclusive
publishing deals. They're in completely different leagues.

The GPL->LGPL was a move to greater freedom at the cost of exclusivity.

What is being proposed works in completely the opposite direction, it is
a move to restrict the publishing of documents by introducing exclusivity.

Terry

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