freedom

[Juan Jose Gomez Cadenas]

Friends,
To some extent, I believe the intervention of Mr. Jobb has been
elucidating. We have been able to read many lucid arguments responding to
his unsolicited contribution.

At this stage, I believe it is probably unnecessary to divert more energy
into an argument that has exhausted it's rational component. We have read a
number of inteligent answers to a rather rude provocation. So, as our
friend suggests, let's have peace and return to business.

Solidarity is a simple but not easy to assimilate concept.
Best,
Juan


>>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,
> 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.
>
>>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.
>
> - gangolf