"[The Clang and LLVM developers] object to the measures we have taken to defend freedom because they see the inconvenience of them and do not recognize (or don'

"[The Clang and LLVM developers] object to the measures we have taken to defend freedom because they see the inconvenience of them and do not recognize (or don't care about) the need for them." I would call this an Orwellian use of language. Stallman and the FSF have adopted a particular definition of "freedom", which is a good deal more particular that the usual definition, but they seem to consistently act as if it was the one and only definition, and therefore that anyone opposed to it is opposed to freedom. Nevertheless, on one reasonable definition of "freedom", permissive licenses are more free than copyleft licenses. On another reasonable definition (the FSFs), copyleft licenses are more free than permissive licenses. The statement quoted above implicitly assumes that there is only one definition of freedom, and it's the one the FSF favors.