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- From: ian@airs.com (Ian Lance Taylor)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Message-ID: <6082@comton.airs.com>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 05:06:28 GMT
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- oz@ursa.sis.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) writes:
-
- >Ian Lance Taylor writes [in response to MZ]:
-
- > ...All freedom exists under a certain set of
- > more or less onerous restrictions. Your argument against the GPL
- > seems to me to be that the GPL is sufficiently onerous that it does
- > not deserve to be called free.
-
- >compare and contrast with the restrictions on the following [eg]: BSD source,
- >the X window system and related software, tex, kermit, c-news, icon, CMU lisp,
- >byacc ...
-
- >qed.
-
- Those programs are also free. Does one form of freedom preclude all
- others?
-
- As I said in my original post, there are many restrictions on life in
- the U.S.A. There are countries which have fewer restrictions. Does
- that mean that the U.S.A. is not a free country? (I am not interested
- in whether the U.S.A. is actually a free country, I am interested in
- whether it is not free because other countries have fewer
- restrictions).
-
- Why not tell me what onerous restrictions are applied by the GPL that
- should not be applied, and why there are so onerous that the program
- is not free? After all this arguing, that should be simple. You can
- even apply it to a real case; perhaps you can convince me to release
- UUCP as a ``truly free'' program rather than under the GPL (actually,
- that's probably not true, since my reasons for using the GPL have
- little to do with freedom in any sense; but you could try).
- --
- Ian Taylor | ian@airs.com | First to identify quote wins free e-mail message:
- `` `The world can grow into an ordered place where all are equal before
- the law. And the law is just. Honest. Without graft.'
- `Is that so important if you are starving?' ''
-