
>The two have different goals. RMS is mistaken about appropriate >licensing for crypto code written by cypherpunks because he thinks the >goals are the same, when they are not. I beg your pardon, but this is no mistake. I'm well aware of the people who argue for donating code to companies "so it will be more widely used." Proprietary software developers have been seeking for years to convince free software developers to think this way, and not just in the field of encryption. This is what the X Consortium used to say (see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/x.html). If you care about freedom, there's no reason why you can't care about users' freedom to share and change software, and their freedom to use encryption, at the same time. You can work to spread use of encryption and to spread users' freedom, at the same time, by developing free encryption software.