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Contrary to popular belief, GPL is not free software. You can't add restrictions to something and call it "free as in freedom". A truly "free as in freedom" lic
by ianal_uanal 10y ago
Contrary to popular belief, GPL is not free software. You can't add restrictions to something and call it "free as in freedom". A truly "free as in freedom" license is one you can't violate (BSD).
- teddyh 10y agoIs a free society one the laws of which you can’t break? No, that’s called anarchy. A free society can have laws, and a free license can have conditions.
- ianal_uanal 10y agoA free society is one where people don't have restrictions. And guess what GPL has.
- jdbernard 10y agoSo in your view of a free society I should be free from restrictions on killing other people?
- lmm 10y agoPeople can and have violated the BSD license, so if you believe that free licenses are only those with no restrictions then the BSD license is not free either. The GPL conforms to all the popular consensus definitions of software freedom (the FSF's free software definition, the OSI's open source definition, and Debian's DFSG); if your concept of "free software" is different from all of those maybe you would communicate more effectively by using a different term.
- annnnd 10y agoWell, he probably meant WTFPL License [0] - it's difficult to violate that one. :) [0] http://www.wtfpl.net/ http://www.wtfpl.net/