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Re: re: freedom


> 
> >I am puzzled here. Why do you need a free library to develop a 
> >comercial software? People of GSL (and other GNU projects) simply say 
> >"we give you this software for free provided anything you make with it 
> >must be also free". Seems like a fair deal to me. 
> 
> hey you copyleft-communist,

What is the matter with you?

> don't you think it is a too simple and stupid view to believe that all 
> software is equal? one must clearly distinguish between software whose 
> development has been financed from public or other peoples money and 
> software that somebody writes on his own risk without being paid. 
> as far as i can see do most people contributig to a numerical library 
> like the gsl work in universities or some kind of governmental
> institution, and all governmental institutions that i know including the 
> universities are explicitly supporting the commercial use of their 
> scientific results. people working there do simply do not have the right 
> to prohibit the commercial use of their work by putting it under the gpl, 
> because commercial use is in the public interest. unfortunately, people 
> deciding about fundings are not generally aware of this and someone should 
> tell them. 

I'm working for an university, which is therefore (by French law) the
owner of my work. As I don't want to argue with the Head of my
university, I've done all my work on GSL on my spare time, on my own
computer (except for sending patches from my university email
account).

Morever, you argument is completely wrong, at least for France. In
France, there are special laws about university work that allows
reasearchers to make commercial uses of their work, as long as the
university receive part of the money. Commercial uses of a software as
understand by most french universities is not compatible with free
software. This means that if my work had been conducted at my
university, you will not even think about using it.

> >As a small contributor to the GSL, I'm very happy that you cannot 
> >link it into your own proprietary software. I don't want to share 
> >with people that do not share. You write a lot about freedom. 
> >Please respect our freedom as GSL developers to not share with 
> >free riders and please stop complaining about our choice. We do not 
> >bother you with your choice to develop proprietary software.
> 
> oh - you don't want to hear about other people's opinion? what kind of 
> discussion is this? as i said above, inserting a gnu-copyleft-notice 
> into originally free software is not enough of a contribution to give one 
> the right to decide about who can use it and who not.

What do you exactly mean? I'm the author and owner of my part, same
thing for all the others. We have decided to release it under the GPL,
and we have already discussed about that with previous trolls. I'm
quite sick of this and, yes, I don't want to ear your opinion,
especially things like "copyleft-communist". To my mind, this list is
intended to discussion about the GSL software not about the relevance
of the GPL for free software. So, please, stop.

Fabrice Rossi


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