[mdlug] GPL

[bob dion]

Robert Adkins wrote:
> Bob Dion wrote:
>>  > If RMS never compromises how did we get the LGPL? That was a compromise
>>  > > on Stallman's part.
>>      If someone wanted to write the LGPL, would they have really needed
>> his blessing?
>>
>> Apparently so, cause that's what happened. If someone wanted to release 
>> their own version of the GPL I guess they could, but than again it could 
>> not be call *GPL* .
>>
>> BD
>     I wouldn't expect it to be called the GPL.
> 
>     Although, it strikes me a bit funny that his blessing would be 
> needed as it seems in rather stark contrast to what the GPL is all 
> about: "Take what you want/need, make your changes, share the results." 
> (Unless I missed the part where RMS is the be-all end-all of all GPL 
> software development...)
> 

Why funny, because the GPL license, (this is not software), it self is 
protected by current copy right laws just like all GLP software?