On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 05:04:19PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Rev> It does that, but sometimes that is not always a good thing. > Rev> Take for example the libreadline library. It is GPL, not LGPL. > Rev> In order to link this library which is somewhat standard (IMO at > Rev> least) your software must be GPL. An example of this is ncftp > Rev> which was using it--that's a nono, even though it is a simple > Rev> shared library. In this instance, the GPL actually hurt ncftp. > > On the contrary. This is an excellent point you made. ncftp > is now under GPL!! Yay! libreadline not being under LGPL worked! > Hurrah! Um, 2.x is GPL. 3.x is not, afaik. > So, it is indeed a good thing. Maybe more software would > become DFSG free if we were a little more pushy about it, like RMS > has been being. > > I think it is about time we hardened our stance in favour of > the GPL. Manoj, you're crazy, you realize that? <sigh> I happened to like 3 better than 2 personally. <shrug> Ah well, one of my favorite programs is now free for the modding---someone wanna do slang version now? =>
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