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Begin forwarded message: > From: Moses McKnight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: January 26, 2008 3:59:22 PM PST > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [sword-devel] GPL and other license related questions > > Hey Chris, I tried to send this to the list but it bounced with the > following error: > > Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; host mail.crosswire.org[64.140.154.250] > said: > 550-Verification failed for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 550-Unrouteable > address 550 > Sender verify failed (in reply to RCPT TO command) > > > Can you send it for me? Or tell me what I need to do to send it? > > Thanks, > Moses > > > > Jason Galyon wrote: >> Chris Little wrote: >>> The only people who would consider the GPL "freedom destroying" >>> are people who only care about their own freedoms and not those >>> of others (i.e. selfish people). I don't think we care about >>> their interests. We certainly don't have any interest in having >>> our work exploited by the selfish, who would like to exploit our >>> years of work for their own personal, possibly monetary, gain. >>> >>> --Chris >>> >> This is full of angst and ignorance. I would expect that of a >> child but not a Christian. If you can not develop a frontend (for >> example) in whatever OSI approved license you choose then I believe >> that is one of the many reasons why people see the GPL as viral and >> freedom destroying. > > I personally don't see the angst in Chris' post. As for his > argument I > don't want to put words in his mouth but let me expand on it a little. > The reason he can rightfully say that the people who would consider > the > GPL "freedom destroying" are selfish and care only about their own > freedoms is this: They think they should have the right (freedom) to > use > someone else's software (time and labor) without recompense or > restriction, but the people who wrote the software should not have the > right or freedom to receive a recompense or place a restriction on > their > work. This is the essence of slavery - someone else getting to use > your > time and labor any way want without recompense. > > Furthermore, to call the GPL viral is a misnomer at best and really > indicative of the selfish attitude mentioned above. If you don't like > the license, don't use the software licensed that way. Quite simple. > Nothing "forces" you to use the software. Your software is completely > unaffected by the GPL if you don't use GPL software in it, and the GPL > cannot possibly "infect" your software. You must purposely use GPL > software in your software in order to affected by it, therefore the > GPL > cannot be accurately called a "virus". To do so is what I would > expect > of a child and not a Christian :-) I would also say that the only > people I have seen that call the GPL a virus and freedom destroying > are > either companies or individuals who want to use GPL software in their > own commercial software and don't like the license. > >> Some look for the good of all and see GPL as not the best method to >> reach those ends. > > You may not intend to but the way this is worded gives the subtle > implication that those who use the GPL are not looking for the good > of all. > >> Again, there are other licenses out there and if you are forced to >> only use GPL then read that again and notice the word "FORCE". >> Lets try and be civil and take the rhetoric out. > > As I mentioned above, no one is "forcing" anyone to use the GPL. If > you > don't like it, don't use the software. No one is "forcing" you to use > the software either. That's some of the rhetoric you mention... > > Moses > > > _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
