From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Dumb Licensing Questions Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2016 14:10:51 +0100 Message-ID: <20161224131051.GA6376@tuxteam.de> References: <1481769661.14047.38.camel@members.fsf.org> <87vaulxaq7.fsf@web.de> <92993b98-1da1-1bcc-ecb4-01deede37183@pelzflorian.de> <20161224080340.GB30358@tuxteam.de> <665c83e5-733c-2210-d3c5-ae7ba2767197@pelzflorian.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1482585092 21110 195.159.176.226 (24 Dec 2016 13:11:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2016 13:11:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 24 14:11:28 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cKm6c-0003dA-Uj for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2016 14:11:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43582 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cKm6b-0000rS-Fx for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2016 08:11:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56832) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cKm6F-0000rM-Uc for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2016 08:11:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cKm6C-0000cX-Nz for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2016 08:10:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:40036 helo=tomasium.tuxteam.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cKm6C-0000bP-Hg for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2016 08:10:56 -0500 Original-Received: from tomas by tomasium.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1cKm67-0001p6-M0; Sat, 24 Dec 2016 14:10:51 +0100 In-Reply-To: <665c83e5-733c-2210-d3c5-ae7ba2767197@pelzflorian.de> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 5.199.139.25 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-user" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:13049 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 09:17:50AM +0100, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > On 12/24/2016 09:03 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > > That's probably because YANAL. > > > > (sorry, couldn't resist). [...] > Sorry, I just wanted to call attention to other opinions. Following the > FSF is the safe and sane choice. Seems we are both sorry :-) No need (on your part, at least). It *is* true that there are different opinions. Perhaps I've become a bit over-sensitive over the years, because I get more and more the impression that there *is* a push to spread FUD in this field (for example, I'm working at a mid-sized company and my boss told us to keep clear of GPL software. When I asked him why, he hand-waved and mumbled something about "liabilities". Note that we don't distribute any software externally, so GPL would not entail *any* extra duties. I'm sure it's not bad intention on his part, but I'm sure too that his opinion has been shaped by the people he speaks most to. And those are... some software vendors. *They* don't like software freedom. When I see said company at the same time making liberal use of free software and doing the job of "useful idiots" for their vendors, I tend to get a bit... sensitive :-) regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlhec9sACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZohQCcC5QAdx3vPnlz2/tZU9NNT/EJ /FMAnAh6YhnpDZ9MfG9w/Xx2KYqoJkTB =ts4v -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----