| From: | Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tim Tassonis <timtas(at)cubic(dot)ch> |
| Cc: | Brandon Aiken <BAiken(at)winemantech(dot)com>, pgsql general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL/FireBird |
| Date: | 2007-02-06 16:59:07 |
| Message-ID: | 1170781146.5451.102.camel@state.g2switchworks.com |
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On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 10:19, Tim Tassonis wrote:
> > The FSF says the MPL is not compatible with the GPL, but, well, the FSF
> > generally finds **all** non-GPL licenses incompatible with the GPL (BSD,
> > MPL, Apache, etc.). The only truly GPL-compatible license I know of is
> > LGPL (and there have been arguments about that). That’s the problem
> > with the GPL. You’re not agreeing to open source your code as much as
> > you’re agreeing to abide by the FSF’s political beliefs. Political
> > lock-in for developers in lieu of vendor lock-in for end-users.
>
> Quite political stuff in a technical posting from somebody apparently
> disliking mixing politics and open source, eh?
>
> It's been said a million times by BSD advocats: put one line of code
> under GPL and you instantly become a willingless slave of Richard
> Stallmans hoards of children-eating communists.
That's ridiculous. Everybody knows that they're more socialists at
heart.
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