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The Free Software Foundation's Statement On Canonical's Updated Licensing Terms
New submitter donaldrobertson writes: After two years of negotiations, Canonical has updated the intellectual property rights policy for Ubuntu Linux to address a disagreement over how the software is licensed. The FSF announcement reads in part: "In July 2013, the FSF, after receiving numerous complaints from the free software community, brought serious problems with the policy to Canonical's attention. Since then, on behalf of the FSF, the GNU Project, and a coalition of other concerned free software activists, we have engaged in many conversations with Canonical's management and legal team proposing and analyzing significant revisions of the overall text. We have worked closely throughout this process with the Software Freedom Conservancy, who provides their expert analysis in a statement published today." Richard Stallman thinks there are still other issues to address saying: "While the FSF acknowledges that the first update emerging from that process solves the most pressing issue with the policy ... the policy remains problematic in ways that prevent us from endorsing it as a model for others."
While I am not 100% in agreement with Stallman all the time (EG I am vehemently against toe cheese), where the hell did the quote from him in the TFS originate? It is not in TFA.
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Stallman is an extremist... There was never any possibility of satisfying him, it's not worth the effort to even try. He's kind of a free software terrorist if you think about it because if you don't do it his way he makes it his personal agenda to hurt your product.
He's also a massive hypocrite who says "it's fine to make money from free software" and then proceeds to bitch and moan about anyone who does other than himself because apparently the only legitimate way to make money in his mind is by eating toenails and being a leech on society.
So ... Who gives a shit if Stallman approved, no one that actually matters.
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That's way too much credit for a software license that's not popular outside of the OSS community, and is far from the only one in it. Such as... Apache's.
Linux succeeded in the server market despite the GPL. What's the GPL do for third party driver developers? It's a boat anchor.
Android, you don't have the source to reproduce the software environment that actually ships with your phone, so what has it really accomplished?