:Daemon News: Restrictively Unrestrictive: The GPL License in Software Development
Daemon News: Restrictively Unrestrictive: The GPL License in Software Development May 2, 1999, 14 :09 UTC (38 Talkback[s]) (6489 reads) (Other stories by Michael Maxwell)
"In this article, I hope to highlight the importance of the BSD license and
similar licensing systems, and compare these to the GPL license. I hope to
show that the GPL is more concerned with political extremism rather
promoting free software, and I also hope to show that the GPL is
"restrictively unrestrictive" and is not all it claims to be."
"... the General Public License is not so much about ``keeping free
software free'' as it is about forcing us to accept the extreme Communistic
political philosophy of Richard Stallman and others at the Free Software
Foundation..."
"... the fact that the GPL can infect code derived from other GPL'ed
programs, as well as the fact that the output of some GPL'ed programs must
also be GPL'ed, is unacceptable. In fact, it should be contested over its
shaky sense of legality in these matters..."
