On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 01:37:10PM -0500, Don Armstrong wrote: > I've been thinking a bit about this license and 2c in general. I'm not > particularly happy about 2c because it restricts the ability of > programs to be used in specific ways. I can't yet codify what I feel > is wrong with it, and what I would do to change it, but I hope to be > able to do so in a few days. Just FYI, I share your feelings. I think 2c is the worst wart on the GNU GPL. Unfortunately, I strongly suspect the FSF is interested in having more warts like this in GNU GPL v3, not fewer. -- G. Branden Robinson | I suspect Linus wrote that in a Debian GNU/Linux | complicated way only to be able to branden@debian.org | have that comment in there. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Lars Wirzenius
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