Subject: Re: Another reason to go GPL
From: Jeffry Smith (smith@missioncriticallinux.com)
Date: Wed Mar 28 2001 - 09:03:19 EST
Paul Sander said:
> I must agree with Bucky's statement below. As a developer of free software, I
> have a strong distaste for the type of facism that the Gnu project markets
> in the name of freedom to redistribute software in a cooperative community.
> My experience with certain Gnu projects has also been that they tend to be
> unresponsive about making much-needed changes, including bug fixes, even when
> they're given patches to the latest public releases.
>
Be aware that GNU/FSF != GPL. Linux is under a GPL license, but the code is NOT GNU controlled. Samba is under the GPL, but is NOT GNU controlled. GPL does NOT require any loss of copyright control to the FSF, unless you specifically grant them the rights (which they require for GNU projects).
jeff
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