On Jul 27, 2008, Gordon Messmer <yinyang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> In the early 1990s we probably needed the GPL, but now it is no >> longer needed because it does not allow collaboration between >> different OpenSource communities. > More nonsense. Nothing significant has changed since the 1990's. One thing changed: companies who wanted to weaken the GPL invented other copyleft licenses that were incompatible with it, so that the GPL would no longer be this "universal receiver", creating the problem that Les keeps complaining about and blaming on the GPL. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
