On 12/30/2019 04:19 PM, Ian Darwin wrote:
> On 12/30/19 15:02, Peter Nicolai Mathias Hansteen wrote:
>> The TL;DR version is that taking code or any other body of work that
>> is offered to you under a permissive license and making your changes
>> to it available only under a more restrictive one may be legal in
>> some or all jurisdictions, but it is most certainly a sign of an
>> almost total lack of respect for the people who did the original work.
>
> Not to mention: putting code under a more restrictive license than
> previously, while calling it "more free", is hypocrisy, pure and
> simple. Nothing gnu here, folks.
>
I would say it depends on your perspective, I think the reason he does
that is to make adding non-free software harder in the future.
Keep in mind, proprietary software can spy on you or cause privacy and
security issues... :/
