mond mond@identi.ca
GCC, LLVM, Copyleft, Companies, and Non-Profits
Bradley M. Kuhn at 2014-01-26T17:23:35Z
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@bkuhn Very interesting blog post.
The part about the GCC RTL exception is of particular personal interest for me since I was still at SFLC during the early stages, though it was not too long before I left SFLC to join Red Hat. Of all my 'late', post-GPLv3 SFLC work the GCC RTL exception was probably my favorite and I suppose I wish I could have stayed to work with you and Karen on the completion of the drafting.
I hadn't known you'd've preferred to see the GCC RTL exception done and released in time to go with GPLv3. It might have been a better idea to do that. The only thing I can say in the other direction is that the GCC RTL exception (the early versions that I was helping you with) benefited from the experience of drafting GPLv3, AGPLv3 and LGPLv3. I think I remember telling you at some point 'this is the first draft of GPLv4'. Which in retrospect may have been a silly thing to say but it captured something of what I was thinking at the time.
Finally, I found it disturbing to hear you say that "a prominent corporate lawyer with an interest in LLVM told me to my face that his company would continue spreading false rumors that I'd use LLVM's membership in Conservancy to push the LLVM developers toward copyleft".
Evan Prodromou at 2012-01-21T16:13:26+00:00
Someday knowing the ins and outs of copyright will be like knowing the intricate rules of internal passports in Communist East Germany.rozzin, Kat Walsh, mond, Mike Linksvayer likes this.
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Mike Linksvayer at 2012-01-09T02:28:10+00:00
Whoops, fixed attribution, plus simpler explanation of CSS overlay than I could find http://ur1.ca/7cnipmond likes this.
Aaron Seigo at 2011-12-11T21:29:04+00:00
there are no end of cheerleaders when large companies open failed products; what about for truly F/OSS projects in the same spaces?faither, Klaus, mond likes this.
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Daniele de Rigo at 2011-05-25T15:38:01+00:00
#epistemology: often scientists cannot reproduce your results because essential info is hidden: the software used . !fs http://ur1.ca/49wj0mond likes this.
♻ @mastro: #epistemology: often scientists cannot reproduce your results because essential info is hidden: software. #fs http://ur1.ca/49wj0
Luis Davila at 2010-07-20T16:48:40+00:00
♻ @siddug !archlinux + !awesomewm rocks / I'm agree with you even if I love !kde too (!awesome I'm still learnig to configure it) :pmond likes this.