Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)]

yodaiken
2002-05-26T14:45:49Z

On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 03:30:46AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> Now comes GPL advocate and says that the only reason why $FOO would
> get in trouble here was (obviously) that he wanted to make money and
> didn't want to share. Which is demonstrably false.

I have no trouble with other non-commercial licenses - in fact we have
donated a bunch of them to universities. We use GPL for the same reason
you do.

What I do have trouble with is arguments like:
"I am a 100% GPL advocate and my only thought is the greater
good of all human kind and the glory of Free Software. However,
in order to advance Free Software, it is my sad duty to
attach non-GPL proprietary code to your code released under GPL
and to derived versions. Of course, I may reluctantly
take money for doing this work, but it's not the money that counts,
it is my pure motivation - according to me. "

I have heard literally thousands of such arguments in the last 4 years.

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