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In article <YLO.92Jan3181626@ngs.ngs.fi> ylo@ngs.ngs.fi (Tatu Ylonen) writes:

   Just for information: I was forced to write my own regular expression
   library because of the restrictions of the GNU licence, and because I
   could not find any other library with the features I needed for a
   commercial project.

A minor nit: You needed to write your own because of the restrictions in
*your* license.

   ... a gnu-compatible library which is free (as opposed to gnu-free), ...

Some people have objections to the freedom of code licensed using the
GNU license.  They fall into one of two classes:

 1) They don't want to give away the source or they don't want their
    code to be freely copyable.

 2) They don't mind their code being used by people who fall into class 1.

The whole point behind all the legalistic jargon and rigamarole of the
Free Software Foundation is this: to let people modify and share the
programs they use.  I think that sometimes people who criticize the
FSF lose sight of that fact.

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