[Axiom-developer] Re: [Maxima] Re: GCL used commercially?

"Stavros Macrakis" <stavros.macrakis@verizon.net> writes:

> > > 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.
> 
> Sigh.  

Sigh.

> The question is deciding between placing GCL under GPL or keeping
> it under LGPL.

Read what I replied to.  Your comment was not about GCL, it was about
GPL.  

> Plainly, since its authors put it under LGPL, they did
> *not* want to use the more restrictive terms of the GPL to "retain
> freedom".  As Stallman said, "if the bulk of the code was written by
> people who wanted that code to be under the LGPL, there is a sense in
> which it would be bad to go against their wishes."

I agree.

Jay