Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: More on the GPL and cooperation

Author:Ken MacLeod
Posted:8/25/2000; 12:57:20 PM
Topic:A softer GPL?
Msg #:20245 (In response to 20234)
Prev/Next:20244 / 20246

In short, commercial software developers (whom Stallman misleadingly calls "proprietary" software developers) are not welcome in Stallman's "community" unless they embrace the GPL.

That's not correct, they are not part of the open source community if they are not willing to make their source open, it has nothing to do with the GPL in that context.

In contrast, many vendors are choosing to sell closed/proprietary software on open source operating systems, and yet still not join the "open source" community in regards to opening their software.

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