[Trisquel-users] Re : will you distribute information about lowrisc, an open source cpu beeing made?

[lcerf]

Again, "being built on" is an expression that does not help the debate.  
Distinctions ought to be made. When talking about reusing free code into  
proprietary software, copyleft prevents it. For instance, Google's additions  
to Linux are under the GPL. They are free. In contrast, because they chose a  
permissive license, FreeBSD developers have effectively helped Apple develop  
MacOS X, a proprietary operating system. Indeed, they have written code that  
Apple developers have not had to write.

Proprietary software running on top of a free operating system is a different  
issue: no free code helped the development. Licenses cannot solve that  
problem. Technology should not solve it either (that would be DRMs to prevent  
the users from running programs: a denial of freedom 0). Information is the  
solution: hopefully, users will understand that they deserve freedoms in  
their computing and that only free software respects their freedoms.