Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Surely it's not the license that restricts the activities of the >> dissident, it's the local authorities? If my government decrees that >> anyone producing works that oblige source to be distributed with >> binaries will be shot, that doesn't mean that the GPL discriminates >> against a field of endeavour. > >The obvious difference is that there are no governments that have such >laws, while there are plenty of real world scenarios where privacy is >beneficial. The dissident test is merely a reasonable extreme case >where that comes into play.
If there were, would we consider the GPL non-free? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
