Re: future of quail
"virus" is too generic. We're talking about STDs here.
"Was it good
I will resist the temptation to develop the analogy any further!
> Er, the BSD license allows you do that. Why would anybody call
you an
> immoral pig and a thief? The whole point of BSD is to allow people to
> use software freely, whether they want to push a proprietary agenda or
> an FSF agenda, or just want to get on with the job.
C'mon, Julian, be fair. Surely you are aware that in fact some people
*do* talk that way, even today (even though you did no such thing,
others do). Use for profit is OK; use by the FSF is not.
Actually, I wasn't aware. I don't spend much (any) time hanging out in
the kind of places where this would be discussed. xemacs-beta is the
only developers' list I read all the time; all the others I just dip
in when I have a bug to report or a patch to submit.
However, there was also, historically, quite a bit of bitching and
moaning about Linux borrowing stuff from BSD kernels while the reverse
was not permissible under the GPL.
Yes - it's kind of immoral to take someone's free software and
improve it with restrictions that mean they can't use your changes,
isn't it;-?
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