Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence
On 2019-03-21 11:17, Giacomo Tesio wrote:
> Most of commercial APIs are crap so we wouldn't lose much.
You care confusing quality with popularity/success. POSIX has its own
share of crap interfaces, but they are prevalent.
> OTOH Free Software is strong enough to innovate and through a strong
> enough copyleft, we might create a new and better stack that keep most
> future software in the Commons, spreading knowledge and collaboration,
> for the benefit of the whole Humanity.
>
> So why do you think that this is a "toxic precedent"?
Because then you'd never be able to provide a compatible free software
alternative to *any* proprietary solution.
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Christian Kastner
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