LWN about EU FP6 and our recommendation

Bernhard Reiter bernhard at intevation.de
Mon May 6 00:42:21 UTC 2002


On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 02:30:59AM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 01:55:27AM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> > LWN mentioned the FSFE recommendation about Free Software
> > in the 6th FP on the mainpage.
> > 
> > 	http://lwn.net/2002/0502/

> > Of course less freedom protecting licenses (like the LGPL) can be
> > a good thing under rare circumstances. Still I cannot see why
> > rewarding having thoughts about protection of the freedom can 
> > be a bad recommendation in the eyes of the LWN editor...
> 
> Have you wrote to letters at lwn.net? It might be a good idea to explain
> why this isn't a bad thing.

I agree that it would be useful to explain it to them.
I've not yet wrote to letters at lwn.net in this regard.
Usually some informed people will do this and explain it in detail.

	Bernhard
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