But FSF has always been willing to sell out for the "big picture".
GNU Classpath exception was a huge concession, for instance.
Danese
On Aug 11, 2007, at 8:53 AM, Henning Schmiedehausen wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 00:25 -0600, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
>
>> I have no clue anymore about what the FEF will or will not like. The
>> key test will be if they sign Sun's contribution agreement for pieces
>> of GNU Classpath that Sun needs, so that Sun will have joint
>> copyright, letting them re-license under closed terms to IBM, BEA,
>> APple, Oracle, etc.
>>
>> If that happens, it represents a complete inversion of the FSF
>> philosophy, from working to make all source code free, to being an
>> enabler of and contributor to closed source software. Ironic.
>
> We should make this loud and clear to the /. crowd.
>
> "FSF selling out their core values" sounds a too good headline to
> let it
> go. :-)
>
> Best regards
> Henning
>
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