Re: RMS endorsement for the Compromise Public License...maybe

This is because RMS is much more intent on destroying the
career prospects of programmers, and the markets of software
companies, than on going after authors of books. He'll never
compromise on his lifelong vendetta, though: RMS wants all 
commercial software companies to die, and all programmers to
be paid poorly. This is the goal he declared in his "GNU 
Manifesto" many years ago, and he is still doggedly pursuing it.

--Brett Glass

At 08:22 PM 7/3/2002, S11001001 wrote:
  
>in a manner of speaking, that is....
>
>I remember reading about CPL a while ago in Kernel Cousins, and recently, I have been hacking on a new book of essays by RMS, to be published soon. The following quote is from the new essay "Misinterpreting Copyright: a Series of Errors". RMS does not mention the CPL specifically, but....
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>For novels, and in general for works that are used for entertainment,
>noncommercial verbatim redistribution may be sufficient freedom for
>the readers.  Computer programs, being used for functional purposes
>(to get jobs done), call for additional freedoms beyond that,
>including the freedom to publish an improved version.  See ``What is
>Free Software'', in this book, for an explanation of the freedoms that
>software users should have.  But it may be an acceptable compromise
>for these freedoms to be universally available only after a delay of
>two or three years from the program's publication.
>>>
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>(of course, I made a couple of minor changes to this para, but I can't release them, strictly speaking ;). Also note the term *may*; I do not speak for RMS. But I am not breaking any rules by posting this, because the whole book is in public CVS.
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>And buy your very own copy of `Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman'!
>
>please cc me in reply, I'm not a subscriber.
>
>-- 
>Stephen Compall
>DotGNU `Contributor' -- http://www.dotgnu.org
>
>I ask that you please stop calling the operating system Linux. The
>Linux kernel is just a small part of the operating system. Many of the
>software programs that make up the operating system you call Linux
>were not developed by Linus Torvalds at all. They were created by GNU
>Project volunteers, putting in their own personal time so that users
>might have a free operating system like the one we have today. To not
>acknowledge the contribution of those programmers is both impolite and
>a misrepresentation of history. That's why I ask that when you refer
>to the operating system, please call it by its proper name, GNU/Linux.
>        -- RMS