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>My definition of freedom is akin to your freedom ends where mine starts That's everyone else's definition too. The disagreement comes from you having the und
by asdkjh345fd 7y ago
>My definition of freedom is akin to your freedom ends where mine starts
That's everyone else's definition too. The disagreement comes from you having the underlying assumption that producing non-GPL software is causing harm, while other people do not share that assumption.
Everyone agrees that your freedom to swing your fist ends where my nose begins, because everyone agrees that punching me is causing harm. But a lot of people do not consider writing software to be causing harm, so they do not see a valid reason to prohibit people from writing software.
- AsyncAwait 7y agoGPL is about not passing less freedom to your users than you yourself received. That's it. You're free not to use GPL'd software, but the moment you do, it's authors are free to impose certain requirements on you, such that you preserve the freedom they gave you for your downstream users.
- asdkjh345fd 7y agoYou're simply ignoring what I said and talking past it.