- To: slug-chat@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: [chat] LGPL license w/o GPL infection
- From: Jamie Wilkinson <jaq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon Oct 15 00:18:02 2001
- Reply-by: Thu Oct 18 00:11:15 EST 2001
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This one time, at band camp, Catie Flick wrote:
>Anyway, all I really wanted to say was that the GPL (and even the LGPL,
>which is considered a bit of a "bastard child" by RMS) isn't the be-all
>and end-all of free software licenses. People should be educated as to
>the alternatives available and not feel socially pressured by anyone to
>release their code under any particular license. *That*, IMHO, is
>freedom.
ObTwoCents: Let's not forget, though, that releasing code under the GPL
doesn't indicate that one was duped into it by social pressures, either; one
may have decided after careful consideration that the GPL is the license one
wants to release under.
Not a troll, not reading anything into or implying anything in what you
wrote, Catie.
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<Balial> This port may thing it's fortified, butt I seem to be mounting
a pretty good assault