On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:53:31 +0200 Alexey Eromenko wrote: > Clark: > You should speak to FSF, and possibly to Richard Stallman himself > about this idea. Clark, please, no! RMS has already played the "let's restrict it a bit more!" game long enough (GFDL, verbatim-copying, AfferoGPL, endorsing Creative Commons licenses, ...). [...] > Anyway: originally Free Software was very permissive (MIT-style), non-copyleft. > Then came in the GPL. A good license (especially v2). > Now came the AGPL to enforce Free Software for > Web / Cloud. A bad license, IMHO, where non-free or dubious restrictions are included with the purpose of defending Free Software. A self-defeating strategy... > > Will "Free Platform License" be the next step ? It *is* clearly a > stronger copyleft than both GPL and AGPL. I hope a "Free Platform License" won't be the next step, since I think it would be a non-free license with practical issues, contributing to license proliferation. [...] > BETA-testing of software: > Today, much of cross-platform Open Source Software is tested by > Windows crowd. VirtualBox, LibreOffice, and more are examples of > this... > Linux-only versions (KVM and KOffice) enjoy from less testers. This is true, at least in part, and is another reason why we should *not* discriminate against some platforms, even if they are proprietary platforms. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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