> Copyleft is not meant to restrict, but to grant freedoms to the end users of the software. That's the goal, but materially it is restrictive licensing, meant

> Copyleft is not meant to restrict, but to grant freedoms to the end users of the software. That's the goal, but materially it is restrictive licensing, meant to impose obligations on the distributors, in order to grant freedoms to the end users of the software. I think that pretending copyleft isn't restrictive is misleading, and it ultimately weakens it. It's as important to respect the GPLs as it is to respect any other restrictive, "proprietary" license. One has no more right to violate the GPL than they have to violate Microsoft licensing.