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* Sander van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-19 22:38:15 +0200]: > On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Matthias Kirschner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are people (like) you who say modified BSD/MIT licenses are more > > free, because users/developers have the freedom to make the software > > unfree. (More a freedom of the individual.) > > No no, it's not just "people" saying that, but also every dictionary > in the world; some examples of dictionary definitions of freedom: > - "the power to determine action without restraint." > - "the absence of or release from ties, obligations, etc." > - "the power to exercise choice and make decisions without constraint > from within or without; autonomy; self-determination." - For whom? The individual or the society? - Which dictionary should I believe? Yours or my political dictionary, which says a lot more about the term? Is there a master human dictionary somewhere? For which language? - "Not just 'people'"? Who writes dictionaries? People, or God? I had university seminars about the term "freedom", and I do not think that we should stop thinking because a dictionary says something (otherwise the dictionary takes away your freedom, doesn't it?). Or do you look up "life" in your dictionary? With best wishes, Matthias/who will try to not stop thinking
