[103818] in Cypherpunks
Re: propose: `cypherpunks license' (Re: Wanted: Twofish source code)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman)
Sun Oct 4 17:37:32 1998
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 15:24:02 -0600
From: Richard Stallman <rms@santafe.edu>
To: aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk, eay@cryptsoft.com, adam@homeport.org,
wk@isil.d.shuttle.de, coderpunks@toad.com, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Richard Stallman <rms@santafe.edu>
A couple of people responded to this
It isn't surprising that people who want to write non-free software
are disappointed that the GNU project won't help them. What is
amazing is that they feel this is unfair.
by expressing doubt that anyone really thinks so.
I think the person who wrote this text
I used to be quite pro-GNU until I tried this exercise (writing
commercial crypto software for software companies) and ended up
re-writing huge tracts of stuff just to remove the GNU license virus.
made that feeling quite clear through his use of name-calling. He did
not content himself with saying, "I had to rewrite huge tracts of
stuff because its authors did not give permission to use it in a
proprietary program," because that straightforward and accurate
description would have shown why his resentment was unjustified.
