On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 09:26:04AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > Copyleft is not a restriction. It is a defense against restrictions > imposed by middlemen on the users.
However short-sighted and basically utilitarian the quoted rationale for avoiding copyleft may be, I think it's impossible for copyleft not to be a restriction. If it did not restrict people from distributing under different licenses, it would no longer be called copyleft, it would just be called public domain. Now, you could definitely say that copyleft is not a restriction on the end user, but if you're looking to minimize the restrictions for *everyone*, including developers of derivatives or applications that use your code, then copyleft is not your license. -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation [email protected] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist
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