Re: xemacs wiki

sorry, i am writing more out of frustration than anything else.  the fact that
we have to worry so much about licensing issues in free software -- and that
they are clearly creating serious impediments -- just sucks.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <[email protected]>
To: "Ben Wing" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 7:39 AM
Subject: Re: xemacs wiki


> > From: "Ben Wing" <[email protected]>
> > Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 02:32:08 -0700
> > >
> > > Not in principle: the GPL itself imposes certain restrictions on you:
> > > you are NOT free to distribute the sources of any derivative work.
> >
> > ???  i don't understand this at all.
>
> Obviously, I blew it: it should have been "... you are NOT free to
> NOT distribute the sources...".
>
> > [ok, slightly off topic]
>
> I don't think arguing about this will be a useful investment of our
> time.  The GPL is here to stay, and we all are more or less
> comfortable with it; we even use it as the de-facto standard of a
> license for Free Software.  Why is it useful to have a long
> philosphical discussion about alternative ways?