From: »Q« <boxcars@gmx.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: 2 to 3??
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:05:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <l2rvm4-fau.ln1@goldry.remarqs.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 469D18A7.9090001@kutulu.org
In <news:469D18A7.9090001@kutulu.org>,
Mike Edenfield <kutulu@kutulu.org> wrote:
>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.
Perhaps you mean downstream developers who accept the GPL granted by
upstream? The original developers can do whatever they like with their
code, since they don't need to license it from anyone.
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Thread overview: 17+ 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
2007-07-17 22:05 ` »Q« [this message]
2007-07-18 2:23 ` [gentoo-user] " Mike Edenfield
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