-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/10/2012 03:04 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > Let me explain this point. GPL aims to protect freedoms but in some > cases restrictions imposed by GPL may threaten the very existence > of project. FSF recognises such cases and as a compromise they > created LGPL just to guarantee some essential rights but not more.
This is a case where the law is distinctly incompatible with technology. The analogy between the LGPL and contrib/nonfree is only similar in that they are somewhat reciprocal of one another. LGPL provides a shim for free works to proliferate with nonfree works. Contrib/nonfree provides a shim for nonfree works to proliferate with free works. The former is sometimes beneficial to freedom where the latter isn't. The battle between free and nonfree is now old enough for both sides to see that erosion is trending in their direction rather then ours. Which is to say that left solely to the devices we know, we would make freedom faster then they could make unfreedom. The trouble will come when we aren't using devices we know anymore. Which will mean that neither software nor the licenses it comes under are going to be the weapons of choice in this generation of the war. I have suspected from the beginning that the reason for this collaboration is specifically because some persons representing either Debian or the FSF have realized that this is true. With Windows 8, TC, and restricted boot imminent, the question over whether Debian would be as popular or not if it didn't work on the hardware that requires nonfree firmware and drivers becomes moot when the free firmware, drivers, or programs of any kind that we do have can be blocked arbitrarily on the hardware of the future. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQJdXxAAoJEM5s7GXJ0FEIljMIAJYAvLOgscYlfl4uHmqJyHkA JKhv8LysyIn6KK2BM/ofe2XZ693k24nUMijKJfAkA9UOJVht8NxtkQhOBtNC8hrf ck+RqEIka/5sJcHX13eQfzWiND/zX/N7gprJ2vMAPBSVtlZZhAgZCwtcox/Jtvju 9BzoH89/SZHlt60C2l6I3FjIGqgvo8WXaGIC6NSwa/0TDkp9jIW7O9v7kefK42Sd 27iyo47/HkUN4Uqpjx6HB14STg+ixVdycrmjeLZb6EEyTEY35bRK62sJxI2PWRep dl52wVWvhMSPJ2NuTjzSGxmVcEV7TB5WxAEYVdZMQMFfatloXdbnsVkZUAbA6go= =HVDa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Fsf-collab-discuss mailing list Fsf-collab-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/fsf-collab-discuss