What you say is not about whether free software is about justice or not. As I mentioned before, software freedom is a matter of justice. Just read my previous email and check the sources on FSF and GNU websites.
On October 1, 2020 12:27:50 PM UTC, Jean Louis <[email protected]> wrote: >* Marinus Savoritias <[email protected]> [2020-10-01 12:09]: >> That sounds very priviledged to me. >> >> Today people are losing access to their software and they lose access to >> banking, democracy, free speech among others. >> >> 20 years ago it may have been sharing. Today though Free Software is about >> equality, democracy, economic independence among just a few. >> >> It is very much about justice. > >Free software is not there to impose harsh justice on the GPL >violators. > >When Stallman was speaking about justice at the time of begin of free >software movement, he was speaking about injustice caused by >proprietary programs in the world, he wanted to create new free >software that will be just, contrary to what was already established >as injustice. > >Please read here: >http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html > >and here: >https://www.fsf.org/licensing/enforcement-principles > >Quotes: > >Our primary goal in GPL enforcement is to bring about GPL >compliance. Copyleft's overarching policy goal is to make respect of >users' freedoms the norm. The > >Legal action is a last resort. Compliance actions are primarily >education and assistance processes to aid those who are not following >the license. Most GPL violations occur by mistake, without ill >will. Copyleft enforcement should assist these distributors to become >helpful participants in the free software projects on which they >rely. Occasionally, violations are intentional or the result of severe >negligence, and there is no duty to be empathetic in those cases. Even >then, a lawsuit is a last resort; mutually agreed terms that fix (or >at least cease) further distribution and address damage already done >are much better than a battle in court. > > >Jean -- Ali Reza Hayati / alirezahayati.com PGP: 6ACD 8BF4 4109 E852 96B7 2F20 6118 CCE2 1080 D0E2 _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
