[vox] [FWD: State of CA endorses Open Source Software]

Bill Broadley bill at broadley.org
Fri Jan 29 21:40:23 PST 2010


Till Stegers wrote:
> Hooray!
> 
> There. ;-)
> 
>>> 9. License must not contaminate other software; and 
> 
> What do they mean by this? Can't be the virulence of the GPL, I think,
> because that would exclude all kinds of software that they probably want
> to use. Is this to exclude stuff like "You may use this program only if

GPL 3 isn't particularly popular compared to GPL 2.

> any other program os O/S you use it with is OSS?"

Like GPL 3 which means that the software isn't legal to use if it's part of a
system that does things that RMS doesn't like.


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