Re: AW: Fwd: CEDET sync

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

    That's only part of it.  It has also been heavily motivated by the
    desire to ostracize those with different beliefs, even if they are
    compatible with freedom.  Specifically, the BSDs have shown that it is
    possible to maintain freedom of the whole for those who want it with
    important parts of the system (eg, the OS kernel) licensed under less
    restrictive conditions.

Stop these false accusations!  We do not reject developers for
disagreeing with us on philosophical questions, as long as they are
willing to participate in the project under the rules and policies it
has.

BSD supporters have attacked the GPL for around 20 years now, but we
have never attacked the BSD licenses.

There is plenty of experience showing the danger that free programs
under lax licenses will have proprietary improvements.  Apache is a
very large example today.  The nonfree dynamically loadable device
drivers for Linux are another example showing that nonfree extensions
are a real danger.

Whatever has happened with the BSD systems cannot disprove these
facts.

You are welcome to participate in this discussion to help improve
Emacs.  You are not welcome to use the list to post accusations or
spread falsehoods about us.