Re: About GPL and proprietary software

From: Mike Mascari <mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com>
To: Doug Quale <quale1(at)charter(dot)net>
Cc: PgSQL General ML <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: About GPL and proprietary software
Date: 2003-09-02 04:53:08
Message-ID: 3F542234.6000608@mascari.com
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Doug Quale wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)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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