"Nicolas Alvarez" <nic### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message
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> http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/27/223230
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GCC_Plugins

> What?!? That's similar to what TiVo did, which made the FSF come up with a
> whole new GPL version. And now they want to use the same kind of strategy
> to make sure plugins are GPL??

Why is it surprising, duplicituous or outrageous that software authors want
to enforce their licenses, be it commercial or free and/or open source? FSF
is not an anti-license organization, it just promotes a different kind of
license than commercial. That doesn't mean similar techniques cannot be
employed to try to enforce the license and/or prosecute infractions.

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