Paul Serice wrote: > DDD is now apparently under the aegis of GNU. So is a whole slew of software[1]. That doesn't mean RMS is personally responsible for what it may say in some manual somewhere, nor does it mean what it says in some manual somewhere has any bearing on the interpretation of the GPL.
All you've proved is that even people who are affiliated with GNU can make stupid summaries of complicated copyright issues. Which is no suprise, as you will see many similar stupid summaries on various debian mailing lists all the time. -- see shy jo [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html