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>which violates the "no restrictions on use" clause from the GPL This seems to be a bad interpretation. This is not adding restrictions on use, this is complyi

by zxzax 5y ago

>which violates the "no restrictions on use" clause from the GPL This seems to be a bad interpretation. This is not adding restrictions on use, this is complying with other legal restrictions that are already there. If that were true, you wouldn't be able to have things like chat clients be GPL, because the same restrictions would apply there with allowing chat servers to collect data.

mcguire 5y ago
The GPL and the FSF legal eagles have a long history of replying, "Then you can't have things like that. Sorry." I suspect there would also be an argument that an intentional distributed system like a chat client/server would be a different beast from an application like an audio editor.