Always one character away from perfetcion
There is an interesting discussion going on the lift mailing list.
The principal maintainer, David Pollak, doesn’t want to abide by the FSF and add GPL or LGPL code to his code base.
Well, I kinda agree.
In terms of freedom, having to redistribute your source code when using one of those libraries is actually reducing your freedom.
Maybe the ultimate DRM ?
I am looking for programmers living in or near
.
I am eager to start a programming user group down here, with technical presentations, meetups, and hum, beers.
If you are interested, please contact me.
Bad surprise this morning:
trying to look for all the open bugs of GMF is just not possible apparently.
If you try to work around the limitation by searching for a space ” “, it results into an error:
You may not search, or create saved searches, without any search terms.
The help links look broken: I created the bug 205151 for that.
As for the listing of all open bugs, any workaround or fix is welcome.
You didn’t get it : GPL and alike are not about developper’s freedom but user’s freedom.
It’s not reducing your freedom — you are free to NOT implement new features by use of GPL/LGPL code. It’s an explicit trade. Say I wrote the GPL software in question.
You may use my code, for whatever purposes you like, in exchange that I (or anyone else) can use your code.
Don’t like it? Then don’t use the work contributed by the Free Software Community as GPL & LGPL licensed work. Write the code yourself and maintain it yourself (and by extension, pay for it yourself).