Re: gEDA-dev: GPL clarification text -- please review & comment/flame!

[al davis <ad136-at-NOSPAMfreeelectron_dot_net>]

On Friday 16 March 2007 15:56, DJ Delorie wrote:
> In the context of that abuse, RMS was the user, Xerox was the
> developer.  RMS felt that he, as a user, was screwed, so he
> created the GPL to protect users in the future.  He, as a
> developer, uses it because he cannot in good conscience abuse
> his users like Xerox did.

Obviously it was not a single incident, rather it was a general 
trend of lots of incidents.  In the printer incident, to which 
I think you refer, he certainly was a user.

I was thinking of another (one of probably many others) in which 
RMS was a developer, (underpaid staff programmer / grad student 
at MIT), and in effect lost his own work due to a commercial 
spin-off.

I had a very close call as a grad student.  GPL to the rescue.


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