Re: PostgreSQL/FireBird - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: PostgreSQL/FireBird
Date
Msg-id 1170781146.5451.102.camel@state.g2switchworks.com
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL/FireBird  (Tim Tassonis <timtas@cubic.ch>)
Responses Re: PostgreSQL/FireBird  (Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>)
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On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 10:19, Tim Tassonis wrote:
> > The FSF says the MPL is not compatible with the GPL, but, well, the FSF
> > generally finds **all** non-GPL licenses incompatible with the GPL (BSD,
> > MPL, Apache, etc.).  The only truly GPL-compatible license I know of is
> > LGPL (and there have been arguments about that).  That’s the problem
> > with the GPL.  You’re not agreeing to open source your code as much as
> > you’re agreeing to abide by the FSF’s political beliefs.  Political
> > lock-in for developers in lieu of vendor lock-in for end-users.
>
> Quite political stuff in a technical posting from somebody apparently
> disliking mixing politics and open source, eh?
>
> It's been said a million times by BSD advocats: put one line of code
> under GPL and you instantly become a willingless slave of Richard
> Stallmans hoards of children-eating communists.

That's ridiculous.  Everybody knows that they're more socialists at
heart.

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