So the GNU GPL has been written by a goal different from the goals of the GNU project and the FSF. Fascinating.
The GNU GPL is a legal document, it cannot insist on everything. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs; and that you know you can do ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ these things. How can "new free programs" be meant to refer only to "existing free programs"? David, reread that sentence, it talks about using the GNU GPL in other free software programs. It is about compatibility with other free licenses. Say the Modified BSD license. Not about making non-free software free. That one can't see your writings about the GPL's goals coincide at all with the statements in the GPL itself, in the FSF's publications and in Stallman's articles about them as well as with the opinions of other GNU maintainers and developers, does not constitute any of those things you are lavishly labelling people with. They coincide with the statements of GPL, the FSF, the GNU project and of RMS. You are simply misreading things on purpose, this is not a new side from you. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss