FSF v Cisco on GPL reached settlement

Tony Theodore tonyt at logyst.com
Thu May 21 12:45:43 UTC 2009


2009/5/21 Brett Glass <brett at lariat.net>:
> Note that the FSF says that "compliance" is their number one goal. In other
> words, they are saying, "Bend over."
>
> This is one reason why I am very glad about the work on "un-GNUed" (but
> fully compatible) versions of utilities such as grep. I am looking forward
> to the day when I can build FreeBSD with a completely BSD-licensed
> toolchain.
>
You have to wonder when the FAQ is nearly longer than the license
itself, but the compatibility matrix sums it up nicely
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility

Regards,

Tony


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