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Re: GNUStep: An Apology for Announcing Donation of ProprietarySoftware
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JW |
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Re: GNUStep: An Apology for Announcing Donation of ProprietarySoftware to the Project |
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Sat, 22 Dec 2001 15:59:37 -0600 |
At 02:47 PM 12/22/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 02:33:29 +0100
>Fred Kiefer <FredKiefer@gmx.de> wrote:
>> I don't want to add more mails to this discussion, I just want to state
>> that I can't agree more to what Nicola wrote. I would not be working on
>> GNUstep if this project wasn't under LGPL and this is more important
>
>LGPL and GNU is not the same thing. The point which disappoints me is
>that GNU seems to be so 'extreme' in its position. If this donation can help
>the GNUstep project and if the company made their donation exactly because of
>that, then I just fail to see why such a donation should be 'bad per se'.
The donation is not 'bad per se'. The unnecessary proclamation of a GNU project
utilizing non-Free software is what was 'bad per se'.
>This
>is why I am disappointed, it is not LGPL or GPL or the annoying 'free vs closed
>software discussion'. It is the fact the Adam has to write an email to
>apologize
>for accepting a donation which was intended to help all of us, in the end!
Adam did not _have_ to apologize. IMHO sending out an "official" retraction
looked worse then the original message did, though in a certain sense I
understand that Adam felt a need to "correct" his original mistake.
>Based on the fact that most of the GNU developers use closed sources all day
>anyway, ie. the bios, the micro code in their CPUs and so on, this looks very
>cynical (and wrong) to me.
>
>-Phil
>--
>Philippe C.D. Robert
>Software Engineer
>Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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Jonathan Wilson
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- Re: import, (continued)
- Re: import, Nicola Pero, 2001/12/21
- [OT] Re: import, Pascal Bourguignon, 2001/12/21
- Re: [OT] Re: import, Stan Shebs, 2001/12/21
- Re: [OT] Re: import, Pascal Bourguignon, 2001/12/21
- Re: [OT] Re: import, Jonathan B. Leffert, 2001/12/21
- Re: [OT] Re: import, Nicola Pero, 2001/12/21
- Re: [OT] Re: import, Jeff Teunissen, 2001/12/22
- Re: GNUStep: An Apology for Announcing Donation of ProprietarySoftware to the Project, Fred Kiefer, 2001/12/21
- RE: GNUStep: An Apology for Announcing Donation of ProprietarySoftware to the Project, Scott Francis, 2001/12/21
- Re: GNUStep: An Apology for Announcing Donation of ProprietarySoftware to the Project, Philippe C.D. Robert, 2001/12/22
- Re: GNUStep: An Apology for Announcing Donation of ProprietarySoftware to the Project,
JW <=
- Re: GNUStep: An Apology for Announcing Donation of ProprietarySoftware to the Project, Jeff Teunissen, 2001/12/22
Re: GNUStep: An Apology for Announcing Donation of Proprietary Software to the Project, Adam Fedor, 2001/12/21
RE: GNUStep: An Apology for Announcing Donation of Proprietary Software to the Project, Scott Francis, 2001/12/21
Re: GNUStep: An Apology for Announcing Donation of Proprietary Software to the Project, Philippe C.D. Robert, 2001/12/22