Posted by: Anonymous
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on October 25, 2007 06:29 PM
So the FSF is labeling anything that is remotely critical of GPL3 as "FUD" and then uses nothing but spin to counter this supposed "FUD".
For a long time GPL has been the de-facto standard license for open source software, the restrictions introduced by GPL3 has caused a lot of people to re-examine (or just examine) their open source license. If the FSF can get enough major projects onto GPL3 a lot of GPL projects will be forced to follow suit as he alluded to (using newspeak) talking about Qt and KDE.
The big fear for the FSF is that if enough developers disagree with RMSs vision of "freedom" though restriction they will stick with GPL2 or even worse, choose another open source license altogether.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 12.186.229.36] on October 25, 2007 06:29 PMFor a long time GPL has been the de-facto standard license for open source software, the restrictions introduced by GPL3 has caused a lot of people to re-examine (or just examine) their open source license. If the FSF can get enough major projects onto GPL3 a lot of GPL projects will be forced to follow suit as he alluded to (using newspeak) talking about Qt and KDE.
The big fear for the FSF is that if enough developers disagree with RMSs vision of "freedom" though restriction they will stick with GPL2 or even worse, choose another open source license altogether.
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