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RMS & FSF Directors To Meet With FSF Members
Free Software Foundation writes "Richard Stallman, Eben Moglen, Bradley Kuhn, and the rest of the FSF leadership are hosting a rare FSF members meeting in Cambridge, MA on March 27, where they will tackle topics including, 'The Dangers of Software Patents', SCO, 'Free Software in a Global Economy', and 'The State of the Foundation'. FSF members will have ample opportunity to gripe, praise, dialog, network, and eat."
Maybe because free-ness isn't the only factor that's important? If you support GPL licensed projects, you can be sure that your support will never directly aid non-free projects.
It depends on what you want. If you only want your code to be free, there are many licenses you can use. If you want your code and its derivative works to be free, there are other license options.
well with apache and the new xfree86 4.4 license, it seems things are starting to 'decentralize' from GPL,
Is that supposed to be a joke? One of the reasons for the changes to the Apache license was specifically to make it compatible with the GPL, which it hadn't previously been (though in the opinion of the FSF the changes didn't accomplish that intended goal).
The real Ralph Yarro posts as Anonymous Coward. Anyone else is an impostor.
If you mean "ability to ensnare others", other licences are a good deal more free.
If you mean having your source available 'n' generations down the line, together with that of software that is built upon yours, the GPL is probably the most free.
The GPL yields free software , so the Free Software Foundation is eminently the correct name for a GPL-promoting organisation.
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