Re: [tlug] GPL Quote

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Curt Sampson writes:
 > On 2008-12-25 17:07 +0900 (Thu), Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
 > 
 > > URL!  URL!  URL!  (I seem to have missed this one.)
 > 
 >   http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/clisp/clisp/doc/Why-CLISP-is-under-GPL
 > 
 > >  >     Building libgmp.a was just too hard work. Other people shouldn't get
 > >  >     it for free.

Argh.  And Stallman proceeded to agree with that line of reasoning.
Any means to his end is OK.

Permissive licenses are about freedom.  Copyleft is about preserving
(and extending) hacker privilege.