On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 06:05:35AM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
In my experience, people who want a more permissive license typically claim that their participation is absolutely necessary, and doing without it would be a disaster. It tends to be somewhat of an exaggeration.
Talk about exaggerations...
I didn't see anyone say that the "no gpl3" crowd was "absolutely necessary" or that there "would be a disaster" -- just that it's something to factor in when considering whether the project would be better off switching.
And it's not as if the anti-permissive crowd ever makes potentially exaggerated claims about what participation would be lost with a BSD-style license (both corporate contributions that would stay private, and individual contributions from GPL fans that would fork (or not be done in the first place) to prevent the former)...
-Scott