[Axiom-developer] Re: [Maxima] Re: GCL used commercially?
Subject: [Axiom-developer] Re: [Maxima] Re: GCL used commercially?
From: Jay Belanger
Date: 28 Jul 2003 13:59:41 -0500
"Stavros Macrakis" <stavros.macrakis@verizon.net> writes:
> Stallman says:
>
> > ...But when we make such a decision, it is a strategic one; it is
> > not because we think that non-free projects deserve our cooperation.
> > They never deserve our cooperation. They deserve to be replaced with
> > free software.
>
> This puts it quite clearly. The GPL is not about defending our work
> (against proprietary forks etc.), it is about constraining others to
> license *their* work under the FSF's preferred terms whenever possible.
It is about retaining the freedom that the original author, the
person who put it under GPL, wants kept.