Re: Recently released QPL
Joseph Carter wrote:
> Ahh, you mean use a license that grants me NO PROTECTION AT ALL or use a
> license that grants me lots of protection, but prevents other people from
> using it unless they agree with RMS' ideals? I don't agree with RMS'
> ideals. RMS' ideals involve taking away the choice to use non-free
> software, I won't support that! RMS' ideals are about his marginalized
> and to be quite honest unrealistic view of the world. The GPL is his
> attempt to force his view on others and now more than ever he's trying to
> cram his views down our throats.
Yet he is remarkably successful in all this forcing and cramming,
particularly given his lack of means of coercion. I think it is
more likely that there is actually a large group of people who
agree with him. How do you think Lintian came to be distributed
under the GPL? RMS certainly didn't tell us to.
> He has already proposed on more than one occasion that Debian get rid of
> the nasty (in his mind) point on our social contract to support people
> who use non-free software and has taken steps to cause us to all but
> delete the contrib and non-free portions of our archive in potato. It's
> about time someone stood up and pushed for just a little bit of realism
> here.
Cites, please. I have never seen him propose this, and I have seen
none of these steps. You are misrepresenting him.
Richard Braakman
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