Stefan Reinauer wrote:
- Jason Gurtz jason@tommyk.com [010828 04:51]:
- Although we agree with the ideas promoted by the free
software foundation we do not and/or cannot necessarily agree with all of the rules set by the foundation. In this light it could, to some extent, be a contrast of wishes to become an offical GNU project.
How about a BSD'ish style license? I'm not sure how others feel about their code being used for 3rd party profit though.
My main concerns are not really 3rd party profits but just religious/political decisions mady be the FSF or certain persons making decisions for FSF that do not like the ideas for example of having virtual machine capable backends because theoretically it would be possible to work around the GPL creating binary drivers. Check out discussions on creating GCC backends for stack based machines such as the JVM, as to be found on various mailing list archives of certain gcc mailing lists. I believe that it's our responsability to change the attitude of the people using our work to recontribute as they use it. I don't feel like restricing anyone, so I rather accept one or two black sheep than making a big step backwards technology-wise or letting the whole idea of having a free and open source firmware go down due to problems that could be solved by leaving behind at least a bit of religion.
I'm not a fan of the GPL either ... I go with the MPL for all my software ... http://www.mozilla.org/MPL ...
howefver sometimes it does feel like signing your rights away...
I agree with re-education though ;-)
Yours
Matthew