From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:51:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1AE934A9-AA1D-430C-97F2-D56B72D80C9D@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14178ED3A898524FB036966D696494FB138F1F@messenger.cv63.navy.mil>
On 17 Jul 2007, at 18:57, <burlingk@cv63.navy.mil>
<burlingk@cv63.navy.mil> wrote:
> ...
> The preamble of Version 2 was almost unchanged from the original
> preamble written for the first GPL license. It was eloquent. It
> was convincing. It was awe inspiring.
> ...
> It is hard to explain my feelings about the new license.
> ...
> They took a license that was a work of art that stood as an example
> to two loosely bound movements, and ran it through the shredder.
> It is like looking upon the battle flag of your own nation with a
> moment of pride, only to notice that some vandal has written
> seditious slurs all over it.
I don't agree with you, but your own words are very eloquently
written, and do cause me to respect your position. I have read both
licenses fully, but sometime I'll have to find the time to do so
again and reread your posts.
Stroller.
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2007-07-17 17:57 [gentoo-user] 2 to 3?? burlingk
2007-07-18 13:51 ` Stroller [this message]
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2007-07-19 14:37 burlingk
2007-07-19 6:13 burlingk
2007-07-19 5:59 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-07-19 5:54 burlingk
2007-07-18 11:07 burlingk
2007-07-18 12:29 ` Dan Cowsill
2007-07-18 4:26 burlingk
2007-07-18 4:18 burlingk
2007-07-17 17:38 burlingk
2007-07-17 17:27 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-07-18 12:38 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-07-18 14:13 ` Stroller
2007-07-18 16:15 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-07-18 13:48 ` Stroller
2007-07-18 16:33 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-07-17 12:12 burlingk
2007-07-17 11:29 ` Abraham Marín Pérez
2007-07-17 10:14 burlingk
2007-07-17 10:42 ` Abraham Marín Pérez
2007-07-17 11:01 ` Graham Murray
2007-07-17 12:48 ` Stroller
2007-07-17 16:19 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2007-07-18 13:13 ` Stroller
2007-07-18 17:40 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2007-07-18 18:10 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-07-18 22:34 ` Stroller
2007-07-18 23:48 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2007-07-19 0:41 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-07-19 2:10 ` Stroller
2007-07-19 1:58 ` Stroller
2007-07-17 17:14 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-07-17 19:29 ` Mike Edenfield
2007-07-16 0:52 burlingk
2007-07-16 12:15 ` Mark Shields
2007-07-16 21:53 ` Jerry McBride
2007-07-17 1:26 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2007-07-17 1:59 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-07-17 1:26 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2007-07-17 2:08 ` Henk Boom
2007-07-13 22:11 Jerry McBride
2007-07-13 22:27 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-07-18 9:28 ` b.n.
2007-07-18 16:23 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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