Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Feb 1999 14:23:45 +0200 (EET) | From | Serguei Koubouchine <> | Subject | Re: RMS at it again *sigh* |
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On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Alex Buell wrote:
> I just read an article by RMS in which he is thinking of changing > libraries over from the LGPL to the GPL. This will have the unwanted > side-effect of driving commercial interests away from further ports of > proprietary software (potentially deny these ports' future conversion to > open source) > > RMS's article is at http://linuxtoday.com/stories/2754.html > > That man is starting to worry me. If he forces certain critical libraries > such as glibc into the GPL instead of the current LGPL, it spells deep > trouble for all.
IMHO, he is a paranoid... LiGNUx, GPL for libraries, making commercial programs impossible on Linux... It's not a boost for a free software, it's a suicide for Linux :-((
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