RFC soon on essay "Does Free Software Production in a Bazaar obey the Law of Diminishing Returns?"
Matthew C. Weigel
weigel+ at pitt.edu
Sun Aug 22 22:41:33 UTC 1999
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Richard Stallman wrote:
> software. There is only one known case where we disagree, and that is
> the Apple license.
Excuse me. That was originally said in conjunction with a few other things
that I ended up taking out, because I couldn't figure out how to word it
properly.
> I agree with you that the QPL has major drawbacks as a free software
> license, and I agree that the proliferation of corporate licenses
> since 1998 is bad for the community. But I don't think that Free
> Software and Open Source really disagree very much here.
Which is why I took out the other stuff I wrote, I just left that line in
(I'm not sure why).
Matthew Weigel Programmer/Sysadmin
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