Re: Fuzzy machine learning framework v1.2

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Sat, 02 Jun 2012 07:43:10 +0200, darkestkhan <darkestkhan@gmail.com> a  
écrit:

> On Saturday, June 2, 2012 12:57:08 AM UTC, Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
>> On the contrary, you gave good reasons to ask Stallman to stop asserting
>> this word belong to him and the GPL, and ask him to acknowledge others  
>> are
>> not less legitimate to have their own claims on what “free” is.
>>
>> --
>> “Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.” [1]
>> “Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [1]
>> [1]: Epigrams on Programming — Alan J. — P. Yale University
>
> You mean like here
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#SoftwareLicenses ?
>
> MIT and BSD are free software licenses according to FSF so I don't see  
> how "this word belongs to GPL".

The tiny thing which hide the big one (sorry, don't know an English  
equivalent for the french « l’arbre qui cache la forêt »). I meant in  
practice and you can't get ride of it with a single quotation. Or else,  
why complain when the doubt about the GPL is increasing and someone oppose  
other licenses to it? I also keep in mind, to Stallman, the only  
legitimate license, is ultimately the GPL, and anything outside the GPL is  
an anomaly. Someone express it somewhere on the web, noticing how people  
talk about XYZ GPL library, saying its the library of choice of any XYZ  
application. Unfortunately, any GPL library is only OK for GPL  
applications, so that cannot be the library of choice for any XYZ  
application. This common shortcut shows a tendency to forget their is also  
a world outside of the GPL, something the GPL preach intently forget. The  
same about the meaning of “free”. Note that among all of the free licenses  
this article quote, the GPL is the least compatible with others. You may  
add an XYZ licensed (such as MIT or BSD) component into a GPL application,  
but not the opposite, as the GPL force everything to be GPL. Is that the  
GPL way to acknowledge other's legitimacy? (as a side note, funny to note  
GPL is the most closed of the free licenses the article mentions, due to  
its viral effect).

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“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.” [1]
“Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming — Alan J. — P. Yale University