On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 03:15:40AM +0200, Adi Stav wrote: > It appears that the easiest way to solve many license incompatibility > problems involving the GPL and other free licenses would be to add a > new version of the GPL, since that would not be difficult (unlike > rewriting huge projects) and because the people who actually have the > power to do that support our ends (unlike the KDE team and Troll).
Flawed premise. I would be offended if the next version of the GPL allowed people to use my software with stuff I didn't intend when I wrote it. So obviously a change to the GPL which allows KDE to suddenly be a non-issue doesn't support my ends. I want a solution to the KDE problem as much as anyone, but not if it means changing the GPL just for KDE. No way. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian Linux developer http://tank.debian.net GnuPG key pub 1024D/DCF9DAB3 sub 2048g/3F9C2A43 http://www.debian.org 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 "What does this tell me? That if Microsoft were the last software company left in the world, 13% of the US population would be scouring garage sales & Goodwill for old TRS-80s, CPM machines & Apple ]['s before they would buy Microsoft. That's not exactly a ringing endorsement." -- Seen on Slashdot
