Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:43:29 +1100 (EST) | From | Damien Miller <> | Subject | Re: GPL version 4 |
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moving misc@openbsd.org to Bcc
Please do not post discussions of GPL politics to OpenBSD mailing lists. You know we have different views, so cross-posting is pure trolling.
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On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:31:15 +0800, Morton Harrow said: > > > > > > > I see with pain in my heart that the GPLv3 doesn't actually give the > > > users of GPLv3 software the liberty and freedom the FSF has been > > > fighting for. Instead they are forced to play by the strict set of > > > terms the GPLv3 provides. > > > > > > > You missed an important philosophical point. In Richard Stallman's world > > view, > > it isn't the user's freedoms that matter, it's the *software*s freedom. > > > > > > I don't think it is that bad - the intent is for the software to be freely > available for *people* to use. It is actually about our freedom. > > regards > > Mark > >
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