On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:51:37AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:

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>     his absolutism also causes people to see BSD as a "problem", a

>     "social failure".

>

> If some people think that, they did not get it from me.  I do not call

> BSD either of those things.  I say that releasing free software under

> a non-copyleft free software license is basically good (i.e., not

> evil), but that using copyleft is better.

>

>     recently we saw theft of BSD to GPL, and a large part of the

>     GPL community thinks there's no problem with that, that the

>     BSD community is being "petty" to make an issue out of it.

>

> I don't think it is wrong in general to relicense code from BSD to

> GPL.  However, in some cases I think it is more useful not to do so,

> in order to contribute changes back to the original BSD-licensed

> project.

It is not just wrong it is fucking illegal.
So much for ethics.
>

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> If such an issue arises for a GNU package, and people think it is not

> doing the most useful thing, I will look at the issue and then if

> necessary discuss it with the developers.

Go talk to some of those wireless developers in Linux.  You'll find

plenty examples of unethical behavior and blatant breaking the law.
>

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> However, if such an issue arises for a program which is not a GNU

> package, I will not get involved unless the developers ask me for

> advice.

>

Your advice is as useful as your recommendations.  Last time the

wireless issue was brought up you simply declined to comment.  Ethics in

action again!

I don't know what your agenda is but it stinks.  Tell us, who pays you

again?