> You're a mac user aren't you.. :) I'm not a Mac user, and I could have written that response.
To further emphasize the message I just finished writing, I do consider the GPL to be a coercive license, and I fail to see the freedom in coercing people to release code if they don't want to (or have a good reason not to). Freedom, by M-W definition: ---------------------------- 1 : the quality or state of being free: as a : the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action b : liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another. ---------------------------- Being forced to distribute my changes violates the words 'necessity', 'coercion', and the phrases 'constraint in choice or action' and 'liberation from [...] restraint or from the power of another'. GPL pretty much violates the whole primary M-W definition of freedom, unless you're willing to engage in semantic games. Of course, I believe people should be allowed to distribute code under any license they please. I just find it disturbing that GPL advocates try to make their license out to be somehow freer than a nonrestrictive license like the BSD which offers a superset of the GPL's rights. Regards, ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
