> "When it goes GPL, you can still have it just by going GPL yourself." Which in...

ninjin · on April 18, 2023

“This is madness! He has lost his mind! This defies the first law of free trade. Rule zero came before this rule one. Freedom means you cannot dictate to anyone.” (emphasis mine)

https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#43

josephcsible · on April 18, 2023

The story about RMS on the airplane is just an ad hominem and has nothing to do with his opinions on software freedom.

> Some of the software which is fetched and compiled is not as free as we would like, but what can we do.

They could choose to not put such software in their ports tree.

> Meanwhile, Richard has personally made sure that all the official GNU software — including Emacs — compiles and runs on Windows.

There's a big difference between making free software support a non-free system and distributing non-free software.

> Rule 1: You cannot sell your code! Rule 2: You must give it only to me

Straw man. The GPL doesn't have anything even resembling either of those rules.

> You cannot give your code away

This is clearly completely absurd and not required by any free license.

ninjin · on April 18, 2023

I provided a reference for a portion of lyrics that fairly elegantly summarised the BSD position on freedom – that is it. Besides, it is a song and obviously it will take artistic liberties compared to an essay.

If you want to argue minutia related to things on that page other than the tiny lyric snippet, it is probably better that you send an e-mail to misc@.