Re: [ba-ohs-talk] More bad news about the GPL License: Fwd: [Gxl] GCC Licencing and XML extracts
My own, admittedly less personal, brush with
greatness?? (01)
Who knew RMS was even listening? ;-) I don't remember
him ever posting on this forum before. (02)
--- Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
> wanted to generate a discussion about the ethics
> of
> creation of closed source tools that use/abuse
> the GPL
> and specifically the GCC:
>
> "Closed source" being the contrary of "open source",
> that and "ethics"
> do not go together. The Free Software Movement says
> that whether a
> program is free or not is an ethical issue. The
> Open Source Movement
> was started (in 1998) with the specific purpose of
> not treating it as
> an ethical issue.
>
> GCC is the work of the Free Software Movement, but
> by discussing it
> under the rubric of "open source" you would tend to
> lead people to
> misattribute it to the other movement. Please don't
> do that.
> (03)
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