DOS ain't dead - GPL user restrictions ?

GPL user restrictions ? (Developers)

posted by Khusraw , Bucharest, Romania, 24.06.2009, 20:08

> > They cannot for drivers afiaik. The commercial driver must use
> userspace
> > workarounds as a loophole
>
> I don't know. Only thing I heard is that there are some proprietary Linux
> drivers. (BTW, as the FSF says: please
> avoid
> the word "commercial" if you mean non-free software. Commercial free
> software is also possible.)

Sorry, but that is an arbitrary and erroneous interpretation of the word "commercial" by the sustainers of the GNU "philosophy". "Commercial" means being aimed for selling or for other type of market exchange, any free software which is the result of business activity is non-commercial and any software produced outside a business activity which is intended for selling/market exchange is commercial. Those are well established terms with a history and an etymology which seem to be far beyond the knowledge of the GNU "philosophy" writers.

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