Re: new webpage: rikai.com

[Jonathan Q <jq@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnball (turnbull@example.com) wrote:

Stephen> You know, I've considered writing a GNU readline server that does
Stephen> nothing except provide the exec boundary between any given application
Stephen> (Ghostscript is the one I have in mind) and the GPLed libreadline.
Stephen> The main trick would be to write the enum defining the RPC protocol
Stephen> _before_ looking at readline.h.
Stephen> 
Stephen> How do you feel about that, Jonathan?

The idea being a workaround for the viral aspects of the GPL?

I suppose that observes the letter of the law if not the spirit, but
like note in a subsequent post, if RMS really wanted freedom, he
would have gone with the BSD license, which unlike the GPL, basically
says "You can do anything with this, including fork the code base and
make a proprietary version if you feel like," whereas the GPL says
"You can do anything, but you can't do that."

We know which is more truly free.

Jonathan



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