Re: About GPL and proprietary software - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Mike Mascari
Subject Re: About GPL and proprietary software
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Msg-id 3F542234.6000608@mascari.com
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In response to Re: About GPL and proprietary software  (Doug Quale <quale1@charter.net>)
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Doug Quale wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>
>>You can bet that RMS, control freak that he is, wouldn't have put that
>>disclaimer in there if he felt he had much chance of making the GPL
>>dynamic linking restriction enforceable.
>
> Name calling ("control freak") is childish.

Eh? Bruce is "childish" for opining that RMS is a "control freak"?
What is the proper terminology for those that call people who think
RMS is a control freak ("childish")?

> If you are not a lawyer and you want to bet that dynamic linking to a
> GPL'ed library doesn't invoke the GPL then I think you're taking a
> gamble.  Clearly you think you know more about the law than the FSF
> General Counsel Eben Moglen (professor of law at Columbia).

A bit hypersensitive, aren't we?

Mike Mascari




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