🚀 go-pugleaf

In many articles, [various people] write:
>>> If I link with GNU I can't redistribute it the way I want.
>> So link with your own code.
> Ick.

If there really is such an incredible demand for unencumbered linking
libraries, it seems like sooner or later someone will write some 8^)

However, since there are a number of good reasons for 'later' rather
than 'sooner', and since there is an incredible volume of slightly
heated traffic on the subject, here is my immodest proposal:

(1) Design an elegant set of linking libraries which can be used in
    the place of GNU's.

(2) Write them.

(3) Work out an acceptable set of distribution terms (e.g. freely
    redistributable, $100000 per copy license fee, only on alternate
    Tuesdays, whatever...).

(4) Distribute them.

The current law of the land is, roughly: "He who writes the code gets
to make the distribution rules."  I like it that way, and I expect
most of you do as well.

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Aside:  That linked libraries must be distributed with code is as
least as much a technical detail as it is a moral issue.

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