And the GPL restricts freedoms 2 and 3. Both are explicitly designed to preserve freedom for everyone forever, not to maximum freedom for the next person in the

And the GPL restricts freedoms 2 and 3. Both are explicitly designed to preserve freedom for everyone forever, not to maximum freedom for the next person in the chain. In the view of the FSF, the freedom to deny other people the same freedoms that you have is not a freedom worth preserving.