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Remember that next time someone argues the GPL restricts their freedom.
by swiley 5y ago
Remember that next time someone argues the GPL restricts their freedom.
- simondotau 5y agoThe GPL can restrict your freedom. All licenses which contain restrictions "restrict freedom" by definition. The actual question is whether the GPL license restrictions come into conflict with any freedoms YOU wish to exercise, such as the freedom to distribute modified binaries without releasing source code. Alternatively you could argue that the mere existence of any software—regardless of its license—can only be additive to freedom and can never be subtractive of it. Under this view it is impossible to have "less freedom" because Terminal.app exists; you've merely identified a scenario where you could have more freedom than you do right now.