Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

["Abraham Marín Pérez" <tecnic5@silvanoc.com>]

burlingk@cv63.navy.mil escribió:
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: lunarcrisis@gmail.com [mailto:lunarcrisis@gmail.com] On 
>> Behalf Of Henk Boom
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 11:08 AM
>> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??
>>
>>
>> On 16/07/07, Volker Armin Hemmann 
>> <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> wrote:
>>     
>>> because gplv3 removes freedom?
>>>       
>> As far as I remember from when I read it, it does not take 
>> any freedoms which the previous versions did not intend to. 
>> The purpose of the GPL is to protect the 4 freedoms. This 
>> instalment just closes loopholes in the previous versions 
>> which would allow these freedoms to be infringed upon.
>>
>>     Henk Boom
>> -- 
>>     
>
> The four freedoms:
> Freedom 0: The freedom to run a program for any purpose.
> Freedom 1: To study the way a program works, and adapt it to your needs.
> Freedom 2: To redistribute copies so that you can help your neighbors.
> Freedom 3: Improve the program, and release your improvements to 
>            the public, so that the whole community benefits. 
> For freedom 1 and 3 to work, the code must be open.
>
> Freedom 1 is just as important as the other three. Freedom one is 
> almost eliminated in GPLv3.  Freedom One is the freedom that was
> most whole heartedly expressed in the original manifesto.
>
> Freedom 3 is the one that GPLv3 is making most important now.
> It does so to the detriment of the other three.
>
>   

I'm not very into licenses and hence my question may seem evident (or 
even stupid) but still... does not Freedom 3 imply Freedom 1? I mean, 
how can you improve a program without being able to study it?

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