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Re: AW: Fwd: CEDET sync
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: AW: Fwd: CEDET sync |
Date: |
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:37:41 -0500 |
That's only part of it. It has also been heavily motivated by the
desire to ostracize those with different beliefs, even if they are
compatible with freedom. Specifically, the BSDs have shown that it is
possible to maintain freedom of the whole for those who want it with
important parts of the system (eg, the OS kernel) licensed under less
restrictive conditions.
Stop these false accusations! We do not reject developers for
disagreeing with us on philosophical questions, as long as they are
willing to participate in the project under the rules and policies it
has.
BSD supporters have attacked the GPL for around 20 years now, but we
have never attacked the BSD licenses.
There is plenty of experience showing the danger that free programs
under lax licenses will have proprietary improvements. Apache is a
very large example today. The nonfree dynamically loadable device
drivers for Linux are another example showing that nonfree extensions
are a real danger.
Whatever has happened with the BSD systems cannot disprove these
facts.
You are welcome to participate in this discussion to help improve
Emacs. You are not welcome to use the list to post accusations or
spread falsehoods about us.
- Re: AW: Fwd: CEDET sync, (continued)
- OT: threats to Free Software (was: AW: Fwd: CEDET sync), Stefan Monnier, 2010/03/02
- Re: OT: threats to Free Software (was: AW: Fwd: CEDET sync), Lennart Borgman, 2010/03/02
- Re: OT: threats to Free Software (was: AW: Fwd: CEDET sync), David Reitter, 2010/03/02
- Re: OT: threats to Free Software (was: AW: Fwd: CEDET sync), Richard Stallman, 2010/03/03
- OT: threats to Free Software (was: AW: Fwd: CEDET sync), Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/03/02
- Re: OT: threats to Free Software (was: AW: Fwd: CEDET sync), Richard Stallman, 2010/03/03
- Re: OT: threats to Free Software (was: AW: Fwd: CEDET sync), Richard Stallman, 2010/03/03
- Re: AW: Fwd: CEDET sync,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: AW: Fwd: CEDET sync, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/03/03
- Re: AW: Fwd: CEDET sync, Chong Yidong, 2010/03/03
- Re: AW: Fwd: CEDET sync, Richard Stallman, 2010/03/05
- Re: AW: Fwd: CEDET sync, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/03/05
- Re: AW: Fwd: CEDET sync, David Kastrup, 2010/03/06
- Re: AW: Fwd: CEDET sync, joakim, 2010/03/03
- Re: Fwd: CEDET sync, Stefan Monnier, 2010/03/02
- AW: Fwd: CEDET sync, Berndl, Klaus, 2010/03/02
- Re: AW: Fwd: CEDET sync, Chong Yidong, 2010/03/02
- Re: AW: Fwd: CEDET sync, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/03/02