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This is not RMS's point of view. RMS doesn't care if you give him back your changes; he cares that you have the freedom to make any changes you wish. He wants

by hasenj 16y ago

This is not RMS's point of view. RMS doesn't care if you give him back your changes; he cares that you have the freedom to make any changes you wish. He wants you to be free from artificial restrictions imposed by copyright laws. He doesn't care if you share your changes with him.

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geon 16y ago
> He doesn't care if you share your changes with him. Well, he does care if you make your changes available to the users of your software so that they too can make the changes they need. That's the whole point of the license, or you should just use MIT/BSD.
- hasenj 16y ago
  Yes, so he cares about the freedom of the user to change software. He doesn't care whether or not these users share these changes with each other and collaborate to develop the software. Although he thinks that's a nice-to-have side effect. He cares that this freedom propagates to all users, not just you, and so just like he gave you this freedom, you also must pass on this freedom.