Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:48:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:48:08 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]:13537 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:48:03 -0400 From: Richard Stallman To: mark@mark.mielke.cc CC: nico@cam.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-reply-to: <20021023072417.GA1311@mark.mielke.cc> (message from Mark Mielke on Wed, 23 Oct 2002 03:24:17 -0400) Subject: Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new Reply-to: rms@gnu.org References:

<20021023072417.GA1311@mark.mielke.cc> Message-Id: Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:54:14 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1048 Lines: 21 > even if others are not. Talking about principles encourages people to > think about them, and that has an influence. In the long run, it has > been very effective--merely writing code would have achieved little. On the contrary - without code, GPL means very little. That does not contradict what I said. You're talking about a different though related question. Any software license gets its main effect from being applied to certain code. But the code alone would not spread the philosophy of free software. To do that, we must talk about the philosophy. If I had only written free software, and not explained about the freedom it gives you, the code might have contributed to the advance of technology but it would not have contributed much to the advance of human freedom. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/