[dragonwriter]

> I generally support Richard Stallman (or, as I've taken to referring to him lately, GNU/Stallman or GNU plus Stallman), but this is a set of directives so wildly out of step with common engineering practice that I have to question how seriously others will take it.

Its not about engineering practice, its about ideology -- these are only blocked if they aren't attached to an appropriate license notice. This is a tool to maintain an ideologically pure experience, engineering has nothing to do with the purpose.