From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Morton Harrow <mharrow@linuxmail.org>
Cc: Miod Vallat <miod@online.fr>,
licensing@fsf.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rms@gnu.org,
claire.newman@canonical.com, announce@fsfeurope.org,
misc@openbsd.org, ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com,
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freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: GPL version 4
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:41:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <33958.1216244510@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:31:15 +0800." <20080716213115.C747F7BC45@ws5-10.us4.outblaze.com>
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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.
> For example, as a liberated computer user, I might like to incorporate
> a high quality piece of GPLv3 software in a commercial product,
> which for bussiness strategic reasons happens to be closed source software.
> But the GPLv3 denies my claim for this freedom to do this.
Right, because doing so would impact the *software*s freedom.
> I fail to see how that strengthens me in a Free and Liberal Software World.
Sometimes, it's not about you.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-16 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-16 21:31 Morton Harrow
2008-07-16 21:41 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2008-07-16 22:23 ` Matthias Kilian
2008-12-14 21:12 ` Mark Kirkwood
2008-12-15 0:27 ` Marco Peereboom
2008-12-15 1:31 ` Mark Kirkwood
2008-12-15 1:44 ` bofh
2008-12-15 1:43 ` Damien Miller
[not found] ` <E1LCDed-0001OK-UC@fencepost.gnu.org>
2008-12-15 20:51 ` Chad Perrin
2008-07-16 22:06 ` David Collier-Brown
2008-07-17 21:17 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2008-07-17 21:24 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-07-16 22:08 ` Al Viro
2008-07-17 2:12 ` Kasper Sandberg
2008-07-17 11:21 ` Alexandre Oliva
[not found] <aQmTc-5A5-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2008-07-18 19:42 ` Bodo Eggert
2008-07-19 0:47 ` David Schwartz
2008-07-19 3:05 ` Eric Furman
[not found] ` <E1KKQd9-000114-IV@fencepost.gnu.org>
2008-07-20 8:34 ` Aleksej Saushev
2008-07-20 12:21 ` Charles L. Nelson
2008-07-20 15:15 ` Kasper Sandberg
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-07-17 8:31 Julian H. Stacey
2008-07-16 18:09 Morton Harrow
2008-07-16 18:43 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-16 19:14 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-07-16 21:48 ` Jan Engelhardt
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