[Ffmpeg-devel] FFmpeg naming and logo (original) (raw)

Rich Felker dalias
Sat Feb 18 06:01:48 CET 2006

On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 01:25:30AM +0100, Balatoni Denes wrote:

Hi!

p?ntek 17 febru?r 2006 04.23-kor Rich Felker ezeket a gondolatokat fogalmazta meg: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 12:41:13PM +0100, Michel Bardiaux wrote: > > >>BTW why do you bother with ffmpeg since its > > >>not GPL, which by your rules is eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil? > > > > > >FFmpeg is free software under any definition of the term. > > > > I didnt mean its not, only that by Rich's rules it's probably not free > > enough. > > WTF? How can more free be not free enough?? > Have you been reciting the mottos from 1984??? I hope you can you read: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhySomeGPLAndNotLGPL "Using the Lesser GPL for any particular library constitutes a retreat for free software. It means we partially abandon the attempt to defend the users' freedom, and some of the requirements to share what is built on top of GPL-covered software. In themselves, those are changes for the worse."

Yes. And it does not make it less free. It's just less practical for the purpose of obliterating non-free software.

Rich

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