Still no new license -- but draft text available

Courageous jkraska1 at san.rr.com
Thu Aug 10 01:08:29 EDT 2000


> But that being said, the *empirical* evidence seems to indicate that the
> open/free aspect of software is much more important than whether (or
> not) it is copylefted.  If you consider the success of Python (with its
> generous CWI license), Perl (with its generous Artistic License--and the
> Grinchly GPL available as an alternative), and the Linux Sysem (not
> "GNU/Linux System"--na-nya-nana-nay Mr. Stallman! ;-)...

Stallman has fairly well soured on his whole "copyleft" notion
anyway. Free software is winning, the rest of us see little need
for communism. Which is exactly what copyleft is, IMO.



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