Re: [Trisquel-users] What do you think of Steam coming to Gnu/Linux.

[onpon4]

I really don't think "permissive" has either a positive or a negative  
connotation. It's a relinquishment of control, and that can be a good or bad  
thing depending on the circumstances. Regardless of copyleft licenses such as  
the GPL being a good thing, they don't relinquish control and are certainly  
not permissive; they give the right to use, modify, and redistribute under  
certain conditions. The copyright holder still has some control; that's how  
the code is prevented from becoming nonfree.

I really don't think we need to sugar-coat our language like that. Copyleft  
licenses are not all that permissive, but some of them are still free (I say  
"some of them" because a noncommercial license like CC BY-NC-SA is nonfree).  
Just point out that copyleft only prevents people from taking away your  
freedom; it makes the four freedoms inalienable rights. Someone in power has  
to enforce that, just like the government has to enforce your right to speak.