Re: Advocating non-free softwares

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 02/27/2013 11:41 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> I am and have been ambivalent about being part of the GNU project.  It
> has come with a lot of harping about how we should say things (like
> insisting on naming Linux as "GNU/Linux"), with little in return.

At the risk of opening up a can of worms, I've long felt there was something of 
an inconsistency in Lilypond's relationship to GNU and GNU policy in any case.

The most obvious oddity is that LP requires contributors to use a non-free 
software service -- Google Code -- to track bugs.

I'm not saying "You have to ..." or taking a pro/anti-GNU position, it just 
strikes me as odd.  In fact the divergence between LP and GNU was stronger a few 
years ago, when I got rather aggressively put down during a list discussion on 
C/C++ coding style for suggesting the GNU style guidelines -- this has clearly 
since changed...