Re: Contradictiory directions

[Po Lu]

Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:

> Nothing is legally required to comply with the GPL. The FSF does not
> dictate law, it uses a license and hopes for the best.

IANAL, but the FSF has them, and as far as they can see, the GPL is a
valid license.  Not to mention that it has already been declared valid
in court many times.

So instead of being pedantic, it is reasonable to say that people
creating Emacs and GCC modules are legally required to comply with the
GPL.

> The scenario of someone sneaking in a non-free SQLite extension
> against the user's wishes is a bit far-fetched, to say the least.
>
> So we are wasting a lot of energy worrying about how to effectively
> inconvenience our users for "protecting" them from an unlikely event
> no matter how much limitations are imposed on the feature being
> discussed.  I thought that the gcc/llvm debacle would be understood at
> this point.

That sounds like defeatism.  Whether or not it will work, we are going
to try, and when we discover a problem, we are going to try to solve it
the best way we can.

See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/compromise.html.