Messages in this thread | | | From | "Khimenko Victor" <> | Date | Sun, 7 Feb 1999 05:35:27 +0300 (MSK) | Subject | Re: RMS at it again *sigh* |
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In <79fq9b$1bf@pell.pell.portland.or.us> david parsons (o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s) wrote: > In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.4.05.9902030657240.2649-100000@tahallah.demon.co.uk>, > Alex Buell <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk> 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)
> No, it simply means that the FSF will go skipping merrily down the > same path as the OSF did with X11. Eventually they'll reach the > brick wall, and then they'll have to hurry back to the start of the > path to catch up to the people who are continuing to work on the > more free version of the code.
We'll see :-))
>>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.
> Glibc critical? Ha! libc4.8 or fight!
So you admit that glibc is critical :-)) (Hint: libc4.8 is just hacked version of glibc1 :-))
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