On 04/12/2007, Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > IANAL and I haven't properly read the GPLv3 (so I may be talking > bollocks) but I am under the impression that things have been changed > ensure greater protection for the users freedoms. That the licence is > more complex is a testament to the legal system, not the licence's > "freeness" so to speak. > > Likewise w/r trolling/flamebait. :) >
Again, like you, IANAL and haven't scrutinized the full text of GPLv3, but from what I've read it seems to me that it actually limits the users freedoms by limiting the hardware that it can run on; indeed the tivoisation clause seems to go against the first of the FSFs self proclaimed four freedoms. "the freedom to use the software for any purpose". Full disclosure: I'm intellectually bias against the GPL for other reasons, so take anything I say on the matter with that in mind.
