* Jeremy Hankins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I personally have advocated a fifth freedom: > > > > 5) The freedom to retain privacy in one's person, effects, and data, > > including, but not limited to, all Works in one's possession and > > one's own changes to Works written by others. > > I think (though I'm not sure) that I agree with what you're trying to > do, but I don't like using privacy as its basis[1]. Reasonable people > can disagree, of course, but I think it's important to understand that > privacy and the free flow of information are competing values, and the > optimum is some point between either extreme that maximizes other > social values. > > To give a concrete example, accurate attribution of changes (e.g., a > changelog) is a good thing because is strengthens the social > structures that keep Free Software working, yet it's clearly a limit > on privacy, albeit relatively minor.
it's not a limit on privacy, because it only applies when an individual chooses to distribute a derived work. iain -- wh33, y1p33 3tc. "If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not shared." -St. Augustine