Re: Roaring Penguin's view

Am Mit, 2002-06-12 um 15.53 schrieb Deven T. Corzine:
 
> Today, that's true.  What if future versions of glibc are under the GPL?

According to Stallman's own reasoning
(http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html), this will only come
to pass if there will be no substantial competitors for glibc. Even if
that should come true, it is far from certain that he license change
would happen. In any case, this is the far future, and none of us has
the slightest idea how the IT world will look like even 5 years from
now. The whole question may be totally irrelevant by then.

Moreover, despite RMS's attempt to make more libraries GPL'd, most
library authors seem to prefer LGPL. I see no reason why this should
change, especially in a situation where even the LGPL seems to offend so
many people.

> After all, even a stopped clock is right twice a day...

Yes, 2 seconds out 86400 :-)
I didn't say Microsoft was always wrong. I just said it's worth
considering whose interests you are arguing for.

Martin

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