Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:12:40 +1300 From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com> Cc: Miod Vallat <miod@online.fr>, rms@gnu.org, misc@openbsd.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, licensing@fsf.org, fedora-list@redhat.com, announce@fsfeurope.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org, Morton Harrow <mharrow@linuxmail.org>, claire.newman@canonical.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPL version 4 Message-ID: <494576C8.3020501@paradise.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <33958.1216244510@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <20080716213115.C747F7BC45@ws5-10.us4.outblaze.com> <33958.1216244510@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu 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
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