his absolutism also causes people to see BSD as a "problem", a
"social failure".
If some people think that, they did not get it from me. I do not call
BSD either of those things. I say that releasing free software under
a non-copyleft free software license is basically good (i.e., not
evil), but that using copyleft is better.
recently we saw theft of BSD to GPL, and a large part of the
GPL community thinks there's no problem with that, that the
BSD community is being "petty" to make an issue out of it.
I don't think it is wrong in general to relicense code from BSD to
GPL. However, in some cases I think it is more useful not to do so,
in order to contribute changes back to the original BSD-licensed
project.
If such an issue arises for a GNU package, and people think it is not
doing the most useful thing, I will look at the issue and then if
necessary discuss it with the developers.
However, if such an issue arises for a program which is not a GNU
package, I will not get involved unless the developers ask me for
advice.
