From: Mike Edenfield <kutulu@kutulu.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:29:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <469D18A7.9090001@kutulu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200707171214.30923.bss03@volumehost.net>
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> Remember that the GPL has always been about all the users NOT just the
> developers/distributors -- "adapt it to your needs" is not allowed when it
> restricts other users' freedoms.
Very few GPL proponents are willing to make this (rather obviously true)
statement; I'm glad some are. But to be more accurate, one should say
that the GPL has always been about guaranteeing users freedoms *at the
expense of* the developer's freedoms.
I'm not sure why that seems to be such a problem for GPL proponents to
admit. It's perfectly legitimate for the GPL to explicitly limit
developer's freedoms (such as the freedom to DRM their binaries), since
the developers explicitly choose to allow the GPL to do so.
--Mike
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-17 10:14 [gentoo-user] 2 to 3?? burlingk
2007-07-17 10:42 ` Abraham Marín Pérez
2007-07-17 11:01 ` Graham Murray
2007-07-17 12:48 ` Stroller
2007-07-17 16:19 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2007-07-18 13:13 ` Stroller
2007-07-18 17:40 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2007-07-18 18:10 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-07-18 22:34 ` Stroller
2007-07-18 23:48 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2007-07-19 0:41 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-07-19 2:10 ` Stroller
2007-07-19 1:58 ` Stroller
2007-07-17 17:14 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-07-17 19:29 ` Mike Edenfield [this message]
2007-07-17 22:05 ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2007-07-18 2:23 ` Mike Edenfield
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-07-19 14:37 [gentoo-user] " burlingk
2007-07-19 6:13 burlingk
2007-07-19 5:59 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-07-19 5:54 burlingk
2007-07-18 11:07 burlingk
2007-07-18 12:29 ` Dan Cowsill
2007-07-18 4:26 burlingk
2007-07-18 4:18 burlingk
2007-07-17 17:57 burlingk
2007-07-18 13:51 ` Stroller
2007-07-17 17:38 burlingk
2007-07-17 17:27 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-07-18 12:38 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-07-18 14:13 ` Stroller
2007-07-18 16:15 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-07-18 13:48 ` Stroller
2007-07-18 16:33 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-07-17 12:12 burlingk
2007-07-17 11:29 ` Abraham Marín Pérez
2007-07-16 0:52 burlingk
2007-07-16 12:15 ` Mark Shields
2007-07-16 21:53 ` Jerry McBride
2007-07-17 1:26 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2007-07-17 1:59 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-07-17 1:26 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2007-07-17 2:08 ` Henk Boom
2007-07-13 22:11 Jerry McBride
2007-07-13 22:27 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-07-18 9:28 ` b.n.
2007-07-18 16:23 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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