Re: what is the current status of GPL v3

[David Kastrup]

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote on Thu, 18 May 2006 12:48:28 +0200:
>
>>>    There is a difference between assembling a system, and developing
>>>    its components.  The FSF certainly does not develop X11.
>
>>> Neither does the FSF develop FTP, SMTP, Gopher, HTTP, ....  I fail
>>> to see what protocols have to do with this.
>
>> The topic is the programs and libraries constituting a GNU system.  And
>> those are to a significant degree developed by third parties and used
>> as components in a compilation.
>
> THIRD parties?  OK, the FSF is one party, so who's the second party?

X.org is the same as the FSF?  Not last time I looked.

> Hey, isn't free software all just one big party?

Not a good stance, since then the fight for leadership begins.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum