> absolutely includes the so called viral provisions of licenses such as the GPL. No, no it does not and rms has very specifically said that free software does

> absolutely includes the so called viral provisions of licenses such as the GPL. No, no it does not and rms has very specifically said that free software doesn't need to be copyleft. They even have a diagram which explicitly includes permissive licenses in the free category: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.en.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.en.html Your definition of freedom isn't different than the FSF's. You perhaps just disagree on what is necessary to safeguard that freedom and you disagree that proprietary software is unethical.