Re: GPL version 4

[Damien Miller <djm%mindrot.org@localhost>]

moving misc%openbsd.org@localhost to Bcc

Please do not post discussions of GPL politics to OpenBSD mailing lists.
You know we have different views, so cross-posting is pure trolling.

-d

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Mark Kirkwood wrote:

> Valdis.Kletnieks%vt.edu@localhost wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:31:15 +0800, Morton Harrow said:
> > 
> >   
> > > I see with pain in my heart that the GPLv3 doesn't actually give the
> > > users of GPLv3 software the liberty and freedom the FSF has been
> > > fighting for. Instead they are forced to play by the strict set of
> > > terms the GPLv3 provides.
> > >     
> > 
> > You missed an important philosophical point.  In Richard Stallman's world
> > view,
> > it isn't the user's freedoms that matter, it's the *software*s freedom.
> > 
> >   
> 
> I don't think it is that bad - the intent is for the software to be freely
> available for *people* to use. It is actually about our freedom.
> 
> regards
> 
> Mark
> 
>