Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:43:29 +1100 (EST) From: Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org> To: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> Cc: Miod Vallat <miod@online.fr>, rms@gnu.org, "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, licensing@fsf.org, fedora-list@redhat.com, announce@fsfeurope.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org, Morton Harrow <mharrow@linuxmail.org>, claire.newman@canonical.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPL version 4 Message-ID: <alpine.BSO.1.10.0812151240430.10868@fuyu.mindrot.org> In-Reply-To: <494576C8.3020501@paradise.net.nz> References: <20080716213115.C747F7BC45@ws5-10.us4.outblaze.com> <33958.1216244510@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <494576C8.3020501@paradise.net.nz>
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moving misc@openbsd.org to Bcc Please do not post discussions of GPL politics to OpenBSD mailing lists. You know we have different views, so cross-posting is pure trolling. -d On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > I don't think it is that bad - the intent is for the software to be freely > available for *people* to use. It is actually about our freedom. > > regards > > Mark > >
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