rjack writes: > By the way, your "four freedoms" are really "restrictions" cloaked in > socialist semantics.
They are not restrictions at all. What is a restriction is copyright: it is the government telling you what you may and may not do with your own property. Why is that not "socialist"? Hyman writes: > The purpose of distributing under the GPL is so that users can run, read, > modify, and share the software they receive. If something would prevent > them from doing these things, then their freedoms are vitiated. Under > those circumstances, there is no point in distributing software them, and > so the GPL forbids it. Only if it is something _you_ do, such as requiring them to agree to a patent license (or sublicense) that would prevent them from exercising the rights they would otherwise heve under the GPL. -- John Hasler [email protected] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
