There 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

There 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/