From: Benoit Cerrina <benoit.cerrina@...>
Date: 2001-11-01T18:18:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24069] Re: Ruby's use of cygwin and commercial use!


"Andrew Hunt" <andy@toolshed.com> wrote in message
news:200110302140.QAA18365@toolshed.com...
> Benoit says:
>
>     >GPL is a viral license meant to propagate like a virus, it doesn't
give you
>     >any more freedom than communism did.  I think Richard Stallman
obvious
>     >fanaticism shows what its worth.
>
> I wouldn't blame this one on Stallman.  The LGPL is the preferred license
for
> a library, and I would have expected our fiends over at Redhat would have
> provided cygwin with the LGPL.  They apparently have chosen not to.
>
> But the blame there lies with Redhat, not Stallman.
>
> /\ndy
>
I specifically said I didn't know the actual cygwin license, the previous
poster said
its GPL therefore no problem, the real thing is GPL <==> problem and it can
be blamed
on Stallman since it is the whole point of this licence. The LGPL is OK for
me (although
I like the other ones I mentioned better) but I reckon it is being
discontinuated.
Benoit