The Invisible Hand

Rodent of Unusual Size Ken.Coar at Golux.Com
Mon Oct 1 22:25:44 UTC 2001


"Karsten M. Self" wrote:
> 
> on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 03:51:53PM -0400, Russell Nelson (nelson at crynwr.com) wrote:
> > Martin Konold writes:
> >  > According to RMS the only way to become free software aka "GPL
> >  > compatible" is either to have it GPL licensed or allow for
> >  > conversion/relicensing to GPL.
> >
> > I believe this is an accurate statement.
> 
> Half-accurate.

And possibly not even that.  rms has stated that Apache
and stuff licenced under the Apache licence are free software,
although he also maintains that the GPL and the Apache
licence are incompatible.  (Roy Fielding and others disagree.)
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