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The one freedom the GPL doesn't have is the freedom to take the freedom away. In BSD and similar you easily can. It is the taking away of freedom that is at t
by rogerbinns 12y ago
The one freedom the GPL doesn't have is the freedom to take the freedom away. In BSD and similar you easily can. It is the taking away of freedom that is at the crux of all this.
- insaneirish 12y ago> In BSD and similar you easily can. Nope. My taking BSD code and producing a proprietary, closed source product it in no way impacts someone else's freedom to do the same, nor does it remove some freedom they previously had.
- rogerbinns 12y agoThe freedoms on the original are indeed unchanged in both cases. The freedom on the derived work is what can be taken away with non-GPL.
- DasIch 12y agoThere was never any freedom on the derived work to begin with, so no freedom can be taken away. Especially considering that in practice people don't just take a look at a project they might derive a project from, see the GPL license and go "Huh, I guess I have to use GPL then". The GPL nerd imagination in play here is as the ridiculous as the imagination of crypto nerds[1]. [1]: http://xkcd.com/538/ http://xkcd.com/538/