Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 12th Sep 2007 04:14 UTC
Here is an interview with Richard Stallman about a range of free software topics including GPLv3 and comment on the Microsoft patent issue. Stallman has a go at Linus Torvalds even suggesting that if people want to keep their freedom they better not follow Torvalds. From the interview: "The fact that Torvalds says "open source" instead of "free software" shows where he is coming from. I wrote the GNU GPL to defend freedom for all users of all versions of a program. I developed version 3 to do that job better and protect against new threats. Torvalds says he rejects this goal; that's probably why he doesn't appreciate GPL version 3. I respect his right to express his views, even though I think they are foolish. However, if you don't want to lose your freedom, you had better not follow him."
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Almefeta: I absolutlely do not see how you come to the conclusion we want to steal code. We sent patches and intented to use that modified sparse - until we realized that we violated the license by submitting patches. Also Debian for instance will not put sparse into its main repositories unless the license changes. Very bad basis for a tool intended to provide core services: introspection information for GObject libraries.
As sparse itself is brilliant code, I am absolutly sure that this stupid license is the reason for the lack of sparse adoption in IT world. So when brilliant code is not used, it is quite obvious that this code is a victim of license idiocity.