Alex Nicolaou scripsit: > I think you accidentally edited out the context that makes this more > clear. The "you" in this sentence is not RMS or a plural you referring > to developers of the GNU system; it is specifically the person I was > responding to (John Cowan) who wrote "failing to give credit to prior > researchers is the act of a morally worthless person". I was talking about scientific research, not programming. Furthermore, I was talking about whether the GNU GPL should *demand* credit. There is no *law* that makes giving credit to one's predecessors a requirement, but justice is not the only virtue. > John's implication is that the Linux kernel development > community is morally worthless for failing to name it GNU/Linux and I > think that this is quite out of line. It would be, if I had either said or implied that. I didn't. I have no opinion on the Linux vs. GNU/Linux dispute. I do have an opinion, which I was defending, on whether the GNU GPL should demand credit as a condition of creating derived works: namely, it is neither practically advisable nor morally justifiable. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin
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