Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: A question about having a coauthor in a program Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 06:22:24 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Message-ID: <86wo3zi6b3.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: <87mu4yyewd.fsf@bsb.me.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="d85a7dc945c8f43c403e29cbe9d08127"; logging-data="4275"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18W4vYu7n0+4vU3kPmV/HIk1dq5N+o+DpA=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:67CHYD7GYnr7ijnb8ItvzYSIEKw= sha1:sfVCQCEqKOed8vmaEgivFr1dKV8= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:152883 Ben Bacarisse writes: > Malcolm McLean writes: > >> Most of the time you are either writing code for a paid project, in which >> case it is confidential, or you are writing code as a public service, >> in which case it ought to be made public domain. However Richard Stallman >> decided that it was his life's mission to destroy Microsoft, and started >> the viral licence craze. > > Interesting that you use a pejorative term for it (two, in fact). RMS's > "life mission" was established by the GNU Manifesto, published six > months before Microsoft released Window v1 (which few people used and > even fewer remember) so I would be surprised if Microsoft was even on > his radar in the spring of 1985. > > I doubt very much that we'd have the viable ecosystem of free software > we have today had it not been for the stipulations of GPL, so its a > craze I am glad he started. > >> In my view it has no point unless you agree >> with Stallman's political mission. > > All missions are political. Maybe you stress that its a political > mission in the hope of tainting his mission to promote software freedom > with his other political views. Or maybe you are just using political > as the broad pejorative it has become in some circles. Thank you for writing this.