> it is a condition that is typically unacceptable for commercial use of software
This is entirely untrue, though. Linux is GPL and it gets way more use than any of the pushover-licensed BSDs do.
This is entirely untrue, though. Linux is GPL and it gets way more use than any of the pushover-licensed BSDs do.
Also, why use ‘pushover’? OpenBSD has strong principles that they’re willing to give up things for, so implying they’re weak is derogatory and unfair.
I use "pushover" because that's what the FSF uses: <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-compatibility.en.html>
> we call them “pushover licenses” because they can't say “no” when one user tries to deny freedom to others.
* "GPL fans said the great problem we would face is that companies would take our BSD code, modify it, and not give back. Nope—the great problem we face is that people would wrap the GPL around our code, and lock us out in the same way that these supposed companies would lock us out. Just like the Linux community, we have many companies giving us code back, all the time.
But once the code is GPL'd, we cannot get it back."
EDIT: The pejoratives are why the FSF message gets lost on an awful lot of people. I admire what they are trying to achieve, the manner in which they go about it makes me not want to engage.
Which in some people's opinion, is no better. Just a different set of handcuffs.
> Some of the software which is fetched and compiled is not as free as we would like, but what can we do.
They could choose to not put such software in their ports tree.
> Meanwhile, Richard has personally made sure that all the official GNU software — including Emacs — compiles and runs on Windows.
There's a big difference between making free software support a non-free system and distributing non-free software.
> Rule 1: You cannot sell your code! Rule 2: You must give it only to me
Straw man. The GPL doesn't have anything even resembling either of those rules.
> You cannot give your code away
This is clearly completely absurd and not required by any free license.
If you want to argue minutia related to things on that page other than the tiny lyric snippet, it is probably better that you send an e-mail to misc@.
Now apply these exceptions to user space, and you’ve basically reinvented the LGPL.