From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1IAsuI-0006Cp-Dg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:40:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6HJciXw010235; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:38:44 GMT Received: from basement.kutulu.org (6.41.101.97.cfl.res.rr.com [97.101.41.6]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6HJTF8t028077 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:29:16 GMT Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECAC01144D for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:29:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <469D18A7.9090001@kutulu.org> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:29:43 -0400 From: Mike Edenfield User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3?? References: <14178ED3A898524FB036966D696494FB138F1B@messenger.cv63.navy.mil> <200707171214.30923.bss03@volumehost.net> In-Reply-To: <200707171214.30923.bss03@volumehost.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d2992eff-190b-4f11-8030-1166042d4325 X-Archives-Hash: 8b1a351f54678db8e7f543317d56e4bc 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list