GNU philosophy and compromises (was: Re: Challenge: Find potential use cases for non-trivial confinement)

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 11:29:13PM +0200, Pierre THIERRY wrote:

> Why the hell was the LGPL invented for, if not to support proprietary
> software developers wanting to use free software libraries?

This is precisely the kind of compromise I'm talking about.

   http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html

> Do you have documents stating that ``GNU explicitely does *not* support
> the "freedom" to distribute non-free software''?

   http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/freedom-or-power.html

-antrik-