Richard's goal is the
complete opposite. His goal is to remove uncertainty,
which is inherently impossible. It is inherently
impossible to draft one license to control all
circumstances in all legal systems all over the world.
But if you were to go at it, you would have to go at it
his way. And the resulting elegance, the resulting
simplicity in design almost achieves what it has to
achieve. And from there a little lawyering will carry
you quite far."
As the person charged with pushing the Stallman agenda,
Moglen understands the frustration of would-be allies.
"Richard is a man who does not want to compromise over
matters that he thinks of as fundamental," Moglen says,
"and he does not take easily the twisting of words or
even just the seeking of artful ambiguity, which human
society often requires from a lot of people."
Because of the Free Software Foundation's unwillingness
to weigh in on issues outside the purview of GNU
development and GPL enforcement, Moglen has taken to
devoting his excess energies to assisting the
Electronic Frontier Foundation, the organization
providing legal aid to recent copyright defendants such
as Dmitri Skylarov.
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