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The EFF is about electronic freedom Maybe they should do something about GPL then. I find it limiting my freedom.
by rimantas 17y ago
The EFF is about electronic freedom
Maybe they should do something about GPL then. I find it limiting my freedom.
- jrockway 17y agoThe ability to take away other people's freedom is not freedom.
- stcredzero 17y agoThe ability to grant freedom is freedom? Freedom is "typeless?" Or is that a "meta-freedom?"
- loup-vaillant 17y ago"not A implies not B" does not mean "A implies B".
- stcredzero 17y agoI was thinking set theory, not just logic. And this is also a parody of trying to apply mathematical logic to ethics and politics.
- ynniv 17y agoThe GPL takes away other people's freedom.
- jrockway 17y agoIf you consider taking away other people's freedom to be a freedom, which we already decided we don't.
- GHFigs 17y agoThe GPL depends on copyright.
- lutorm 17y agoMaybe you shouldn't think so much about your freedom as about maximizing the total freedom. If that means you can't do everything you want, too bad. When people in the US talk about freedom, they seem to only focus on the freedom of them to do what they want and disregard the possibility that their actions might have side effects.
- GHFigs 17y agothe total freedom What does this mean?
- lutorm 17y agoHard to define, I know. But I'm sure you agree that giving you the freedom to imprison people at will does not result in a net increase of freedom when you take into account the people affected by that.
- rimantas 17y agoFirst, I am not in US. Second, I don't see how limiting everyone's freedom maximizes it. Nor do I think that imposing some particular understanding of freedom does that. Consider me releasing my code under GPL in one case and MIT in another. Which leads to maximization of freedom for those who may be interested in reusing it?
- loup-vaillant 17y agoYour question is biased. I'd say only this: if the GPL gets in your way, that's because you want to distribute proprietary software, right? But if you care about freedom, why on Earth would you take it away from your users?
- rimantas 17y agoI'd say only this: if the GPL gets in your way, that's because you want to distribute proprietary software, right? Wrong. Compare GPL to MIT and you will understand.
- zppx 17y agoSo, why the hell are you using some Apple software that is much more restrictive than the the GPL?
- rimantas 17y agoBecause it does not restrict me in any way.