Re: future of quail
> Regarding Re: future of quail; "Stephen J. Turnbull"
<stephen(a)xemacs.org> adds:
Hauke Fath writes:
Not in my experience, although the experience is
perhaps biased. It was gained in fora where BSDers'
sense of "freedom" collides with that of FSFers, such
as Russ Nelson's Free Software Business list.
It was *very* common in those fora for BSDers to talk about the
unfreedom of copyleft and the unfairness of the way GNU sucks in
permissively licensed software and returns nothing to the wider
community including non-GPL projects. Stallman's penchant for
demanding that "GNU" be prefixed to every use of the word "Linux"
not
followed by "kernel", while failing to mention the contributions to
the GNU System by Larry Wall, Don Knuth, MIT/X Consortium, Aladdin
Enterprises, and of course the BSD developers was another big
irritant.
Well may be I am too pragmatic for this discussion. But I
thought a way of looking at it, is:
BSD allows its code to be "stolen" by a commercial product
(Mac X comes into my mind), while GPL does not allow you
this.
In a way GPL is "more capitalistic" then BSD,
as in:
"you like my code" take it but pay for it "by
redistributing it with the same license".
I found the GPL idea more coherent and just even if it comes
sometimes at a price, like the headache caused by a
GPL2->GPL3 transition.
Uwe Brauer
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