Le samedi 22 février 2020, 22:52:11 CET Jean Louis a écrit : > * Alex Taylor <altsamtay...@gmail.com> [2020-02-22 10:31]: > > Recently we have been "invited" to approve a thing which is being > > called the "social contract". If the text is read, it will be seen > > that it has three parts. > > > > The first part is the four freedoms established by Stallman many years > > ago. No problem there, we all agree with those. Or do we? Well I > > personally do. But GNU has for many years received contributions from > > people who do not agree with its philosophy. Many such contributors > > are even employed by proprietary software companies. So if > > contributors are pressured into "endorsing" these it is likely to > > discourage some of the very people who have helped us. > > Yet, free software freedoms are not analysed and presented well > enough, so I think, majority of people would like to police it, if > they would be aware of it. > > Let me give you example on The freedom to run the program as you wish, > for any purpose (freedom 0). > > Now imagine the freedom for North Korean leaders to run the GNU > software to launch nuclear rockets towards Boston, USA. Would you be > in agreement on it?
Freedom 0 doesn’t apply to States. The four freedoms, which are about licences, are juridical one. A State decide the law, so a state can do anything, be it allowed or not. So a State doesn’t need it, it doesn’t care. You misinterpret freedom 0 the same way as Samuel used to do. As a generally-social/individual, all-encompassing, one. While it’s only about law and what’s you’re legally allowed to do. > If you really stand for freedom 0, then you should be in agreement for > it, it is about integrity. > > Even if rockets would be directed to your own city, one should be in > agreement with it, that is the value one should stand for. > > I don't think that majority of free software users is really aware > what that freedom means. That is the tiring problem of “ethical” licences >< And they can actually get as legally wrong as to ask stuff to legislators or states, as if it changed anything (beside distroying copyleft).
