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The “Anyone but Richard M Stallman” (ABRMS) License

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22 pointsmdturnerphys15 comments

I aspire to make enough important and influential decisions some day to earn the sort of hatred RMS has.

No kidding. Despite the hate, look where open-source was pre-RMS, and where it is now. Look how important GNU tools are, GCC, Linux, and so on...

How would we judge that?

Per Wikipedia, Stallman wrote the GPLv1 in 1989. I wasn't even born then.

Moreover, I doubt this is a good argument. Would the Mill (youtube.com/watch?v=QyzlEYspqTI) be possible using Free Software (consider the GCC exceptions were pushed way too late, circa 2009 per gnu.org https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gcc-exception-3.1.html)?

Would Linux even exist without at least BSD having been released?

I'm more of a copyleft than a 'BSD libertarian', but I don't think we can look at RMS's contribution by comparing what was before and what is now if for no other reason because it's impossible to separate what is due to copyleft, what is due to BSD-style and what is due to a mixture of both.

Sounds like a very dumb license.

Not to mention proprietary.

How is this proprietary? The license says that you can do anything you want to do with it.

This sounds pretty similar to WTFPL[0], and WTFPL is listed[1] as a GPL-compatible free software license by the FSF.

0 - http://www.wtfpl.net/

1 - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#WTFPL

> How is this proprietary? The license says that you can do anything you want to do with it.

Exceptions limiting freedom of its usage make it non FOSS.

Yup, that makes it both open source incompatible and free software incompatible. My mistake. Thanks for pointing that out.

This is a stupid "license"... I rather like the "DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE" that I use from time to time https://github.com/betolink/snowgl > http://www.wtfpl.net/txt/copying/

I came across this due to a search-engine suggestion when searching for a certain xkcd comic [1]. Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6822005

[1] http://www.xkcd.com/225/

Important: the author comments in that thread and claims it's satire. I think it's in poor taste, but I'm relieved to know this isn't truly intended to be used.

To be, or not to be- that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer RMS The slings and arrows of outrageous Fortune 500 Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing GNU end them.

LOL

I wonder why the guy doesn't want RMS to use his software, but his ABRMS has the same virality as the GPL!

ROFL

>It’s not about hating free software. I’m a believer in that; I released my first game for free in 1982. Note that the github thing I put up is essentially totally free (something I would have been restricted from doing, by my employer, up to a year ago).

I have a personal dislike for RMS and I think that his philosophy of economy is at best naïve and dangerously unworkable. 25 years ago he was exhorting me to quit my job in protest to support some of his politics and he wasn’t pleasant about it. Thus, ABRMS.

from http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=2106. via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6822190

Rude.

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