David Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 04:27, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > David Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > There are freedoms that you get from having the source code other than > > > replacing the version you're interacting with. You can learn how > > > algorithms work. You can incorporate it into other software systems. > > > > I could get freedoms by having the tax returns of the people who > > modified the software too. Why should that not also be part of the > > license? > > Because those tax returns have nothing to do with Free Software, while > the source code to actual Free Soware you modified, does.
Hardly. Do you really think that a nefarious person couldn't put Ted Turner's tax returns to help free software? Or how about this: you must, as a condition of copying, take three classes in software design. There, that surely helps with free software, right?