Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- IT Business Edge: "Rosen: GPL Is Good, but OSL Is Better"

[Ciaran O'Riordan]

> Rosen: GPL Is Good, but OSL Is Better 

GPLv3 isn't Stallman's ideal licence either.

He would prefer that the tivoisation and patent clauses be stronger, but as
well as writing a licence that is better than GPLv2, Stallman is writing a
licence that people will use.  If nobody uses a licence, then it's not doing
it's job of granting freedoms.

So Stallman has compromised in various places, and the result is a licence
which is better than GPLv2 and which will be widely used.



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