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GPL/BSD are "restrictive" to protect the freedom of the software. You cannot have freedom without having a rule for freedom. Free software is not anarchy softwa

• dpark 14y ago
  > You cannot have freedom without having a rule for freedom. Of course you can. Freedom is the lack of restrictions. I think you're confusing freedom with rights, which do indeed need protection. An argument could be made that what the GPL attempts to do is assert a right to the source code which they protect with restrictions to the developer's freedom. (Just as the right to life is protected with restrictions to the freedom to kill.)
  • fmoralesc 14y ago
    > Freedom is the lack of restrictions. That's just the negative sense of freedom. People mean sometimes a different sense of "freedom" , where to be free to do something implies rights, which then implies duties. See http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberty-positive-negative/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberty-positive-negative/
• Evbn 14y ago
  You accidentally repeated parent's mistake. There is nothing restrictive in BSD at all. Proprietary shops love BSD.