Richard Stallman wrote: > I considered it a problematical compromise. At least it gave us free software after a year.
Precisely my point: "FOSS is better late than never." /Larry -----Original Message----- From: Richard Stallman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 2:24 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Open Source Eventually License Development [ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. I actually like the Ghostscript/Aladdin license, which was essentially GPL-after-one-year. I was their attorney at the time and I fully supported their business and licensing model. (For what it is worth, so did my client's friend, Richard Stallman, who apparently considered this a reasonable way then to end up with GPL software.) That is not quite accurate. I considered it a problematical compromise. At least it gave us free software after a year. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call. _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
