On 5/20/08, hiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What do you think about the freedom to remove the freedom from the code? > cut any other's freedom. On the other hand everyone could use your > code, and noone would even notice. It does *no* harm to others.
sure it does if i start selling dwm for money then it can make harm (economically and game theoretically) > I could understand if you were fighting for real freedom, but this is > an imaginary fight about intellectual nonsense. i don't get your point here there are many possible attitudes and strategies with respect to software licensing and it's absolutely not trivial which one to chose to achieve a goal (or which goal to prefer). eg. GPL is one possibility which were discussed. it is perfectly justified to talk and reason about the consequences of certain licensing schemes. > Code has no freedom. people in society want to be free, but the code > doesn't mind. It is just letters and stuff. neither free nor unfree. imho noone talked abut the freedom of code but the freedom of people using that code.
