[Trisquel-users] Re : Stallman on the Linux Action Show

[magicbanana]

Who runs the JavaScript you wrote? The visitors of the website (through their  
web browsers). They are the users. In rms' opinion (and mine, and that most  
of Trisquel's users I guess), the visitor therefore deserves the four  
freedoms defining a free software. Among them, the freedom to take part your  
code, improve upon it (or not) and redistribute it (through another website  
in your example). Notice however than choosing a copyleft license, such as  
the GNU GPL, force this redistribution to happen under the same license. You  
can then profit from the improvements made by the people who took your code  
as a base. The company that paid you may want you to prevent the visitors to  
have control over the JavaScript they run... but that is unethical! As such,  
it is a deal rms (or me or most of Trisquel's users I guess) would refuse.

In rms' opinion (and mine, and that most of Trisquel's users I guess),  
copying is good. In all cases, and as I told you many times, copying is not  
theft (and is not defined as such in the legislations: stealing is a  
"subtraction of somebody else's property, who becomes deprived from it").