Tim Roberts <t...@probo.com> writes: > Graham Percival wrote: >> >> Commercial services are ok, but non-Free software is not. The GNU >> coding standards are quite clear on this: >> >> "A GNU program should not recommend, promote, or grant legitimacy >> to the use of any non-free program. Proprietary software is a >> social and ethical problem, and our aim is to put an end to that >> problem." >> http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/References.html > > The phrase "should not" merely means that one must feel guilty when > doing so. It is not a prohibition.
We are not working against the GNU project, but as a part of it. There is nobody we would need to be guilty about, but it is distasteful to not heed one's own standards. > In other words, that's a philosophical statement, not a legal > statement. The GNU Manifesto is also not a legal statement, but a philosophical one. LilyPond is a GNU project and thus has subscribed to this philosophy. I did not remember plans to change that, and it is not like it has served us badly. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
