On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 04:00:58AM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 01:44:42PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > > That is your opinion (and the opinion of most of us) but it's still not the > > > "fact" you make it out to be. GPL *does* restrict your rights. If you > > > found a kewl foobar program but wanted to put the xforms front end to it, > > > you can't. Well, you can, but then you can't distribute it to anyone, > > > > This is the fault of the xforms people for not making it truly Free; > > don't try to pin that on the GPL. > STOP RIGHT THERE. Yo. Joseph. Breathe. > The GPL is not the only free license there is. No, but it was one of the first. All these Johnny-Come-Lately licenses that purport to be free but don't even let you mix GPLed code and their own are pretty damn inconsiderate, aren't they? Face it. Free software can't be used everywhere. You can't even use every bit of free code in any free software project you might choose. People have different goals. Some people want to get famous and have you advertise them whenever they can make you. Other people don't mind giving stuff away, but don't want to be exploited. Others don't mind giving stuff away, but want to exploit you if they can get away with it. People's, and software's, goals *differ*. It's a fact of life. It's no one's fault. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``Like the ski resort of girls looking for husbands and husbands looking for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem.''
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