[TriLUG] I have some sticky licensing questions

[Peter Neilson]

On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 18:28:51 -0400, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>  
wrote:

> Whoa, down boy. I didn't say that. I said the GPL3 is too copyleft and
> restrictive for my taste. Obviously code isn't naturally proprietary.
> Or naturally free. It just naturally compiles into something that can
> run a computer.

I believe that Scott Chilcote's reply to the thread ambiguously suggested  
that MY harsh words ("viral," "proprietary nature of code," "GPL  
[unsuitable] for serious work") were yours. No need for you, Steve, to  
defend my words. I'm certain that we disagree. I'm still a great fan of  
rms, of his right to be "left", and of the huge body of GPL-licensed and  
other anti-proprietary software. I certainly disagree with the view of rms  
and others that "the software wants to be free" because it does not.  
Software lacks the capability to "want" anything.

Will that change? We all read science fiction, from Mary Shelley onward  
through Asimov. We're not "there" yet.