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Wow, this is a gross misrepresentation of CopyLeft licenses.

by boucher 17y ago

tensor 17y ago
How so? Copyleft has always said "you are free to do things our way." That's the entire intent and why proponents of the idea like to write Free with a capital, to distinguish from the usual definition of the word.
- mcantelon 17y ago
  Right. The point of copyleft is not to give things away free to everybody, but to change the power dynamics of the market by affording some competitive advantage to community developments. The end vision of this is the creation of best-of-breed tools and content that are available to all and, as a result, raise collective productivity.
- boucher 17y ago
  Do I really need to point out the ways? Agree or disagree with CopyLeft, this is just extreme: - Applying the coercive machinery of the state in this way always boils down to the threat of physical violence for non-compliance. - [you've] given men with guns a pretext for tearing apart a life, or lives - I have no interest whatsoever in wreaking havoc on people who want to use my code - Not only copyleft advocates but anybody affixing a licensing statement to open-source software is guilty of ... magical thinking
  - tensor 17y ago
    It's an odd way of looking at things, but not incorrect. If you refuse repeatedly to submit to law, physical violence is the necessary end result. What he does misrepresent is that his rant is true of all application of law. I certainly do not think anyone would seriously claim all use of law is bad. At any rate, it does not misrepresent the GPL. It describes it fairly well. It is his stance on law overall that is extreme: the position of anarchy.
    - arto 17y ago
      "It is his stance on law overall that is extreme: the position of anarchy." That's probably because I'm an anarchist. Specifically, an anarcho-capitalist.
    - boucher 17y ago
      For an extremely loose sense of the term physical violence perhaps. In any case, I suspect you'd be hard pressed to find a single case of Copyright enforcement in the United States (or any other first world society in modern history) where physical violence was used. As such, it does misrepresent the GPL. The author is implying that anyone who uses the GPL wants to hurt you and your family. And that is absurd.

Wow, this is a gross misrepresentation of CopyLeft licenses.

by boucher 17y ago

Wow, this is a gross misrepresentation of CopyLeft licenses.

How so? Copyleft has always said "you are free to do things our way." That's the entire intent and why proponents of the idea like to write Free with a capital, to distinguish from the usual definition of the word.

mcantelon 17y ago
Right. The point of copyleft is not to give things away free to everybody, but to change the power dynamics of the market by affording some competitive advantage to community developments. The end vision of this is the creation of best-of-breed tools and content that are available to all and, as a result, raise collective productivity.
boucher 17y ago
Do I really need to point out the ways? Agree or disagree with CopyLeft, this is just extreme: - Applying the coercive machinery of the state in this way always boils down to the threat of physical violence for non-compliance. - [you've] given men with guns a pretext for tearing apart a life, or lives - I have no interest whatsoever in wreaking havoc on people who want to use my code - Not only copyleft advocates but anybody affixing a licensing statement to open-source software is guilty of ... magical thinking
- tensor 17y ago
  It's an odd way of looking at things, but not incorrect. If you refuse repeatedly to submit to law, physical violence is the necessary end result. What he does misrepresent is that his rant is true of all application of law. I certainly do not think anyone would seriously claim all use of law is bad. At any rate, it does not misrepresent the GPL. It describes it fairly well. It is his stance on law overall that is extreme: the position of anarchy.
  - arto 17y ago
    "It is his stance on law overall that is extreme: the position of anarchy." That's probably because I'm an anarchist. Specifically, an anarcho-capitalist.
  - boucher 17y ago
    For an extremely loose sense of the term physical violence perhaps. In any case, I suspect you'd be hard pressed to find a single case of Copyright enforcement in the United States (or any other first world society in modern history) where physical violence was used. As such, it does misrepresent the GPL. The author is implying that anyone who uses the GPL wants to hurt you and your family. And that is absurd.