On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:59:43AM -0400, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > The GPL has always tried to go as far as copyright would allow to > mandate software freedom. That's what Michael Meeks (and/or Jeremy > Allison -- I heard them both use this phrase within a few weeks of each > other and not sure who deserves credit) call "copyleft's judo move on > copyright". It's the essence of strong copyleft.
A few sources credit Richard Stallman with saying that the GPL is "a form of intellectual jujitsu, using the legal system that software hoarders have set up against them" in a _Byte_ interview in July 1986. However, I do not see any RMS interview in that issue of _Byte_ (which is now available at archive.org). The gnu.org site has republished what it says is a July 1986 _Byte_ interview of RMS, but this contains no jujitsu quote. It seems likely that RMS *did* originate this characterization of the GPL, and probably in a _Byte_ interview, but it would be nice to track down the precise date of publication. - RF _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
