From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Getz Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:01:04 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot] U-book and GPLv3? (fwd) In-Reply-To: References: <20090618145128.69F27832E416@gemini.denx.de> <200906301314.34142.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> Message-ID: <200906301701.04544.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Tue 30 Jun 2009 15:12, Richard Stallman pondered: > > That is great - and I applaud your efforts. I think that the work > you are doing is valuable, and the contributions you have made have > been critically important to the free and closed software developments > that people to today. > > If you mean that my work has contrubuted to non-free software > developments, I am not proud of that. It is not a good thing that > people develop or use non-free software. Not to go down a rat hole - but as a normal part of development of non-free software, people use emacs, gcc, and gdb all the time - you aren't proud of the contributions you made to those projects? I was trying to say that your efforts have changed the face of computing in general, in both that it has created the "free" and "non-free" software software categories, and helped inform users of their freedoms they should be expecting. To use someone else's words - an IDC 2006 study "Open Source in Global Software: Market Impact, Disruption, and Business Models" described free software and open source as "the most significant all-encompassing and long-term trend that the software industry has seen since the early 1980s" and found that over 70 percent of all developers are leveraging open-source and free software. In any movement - there needs to be the golden standard - that is unwavering in its ethics and standards. Not everyone likes that standard - but it needs to be there.