Jimmie, Since you started this thread, I have to ask. You say you are an advocate of open source software. OK. But are you just on the consumer side or also on the producer side ? In other words, have you written/published/supported any non-trivial open source software ? Are you an academic or are you involved in commercial software (i.e. have you written closed software that you sell or otherwise make money off) ? Sven
On 2 Oct 2017, at 22:06, Jimmie Houchin <jlhouchin@gmail.com> wrote:
No I have not. I don't tend to go their direction very often. I am an advocate of open source software but am not a fan of FSF's ethics or political opinions. And as you say, that want all software to be GPL. Also, I do prefer to hear third party opinions especially those who have potentially court tested ones. That is ultimately where we find the true definition and understanding.
Thanks.
Jimmie
On 10/02/2017 02:48 PM, Peter Uhnák wrote:
But of course this is written by FSF, and for them GPL is not just a legal matter, but an ethical one (and from their perspective GPL being a virus infecting other code is a good comparison, because they really want to take over).