Re: Charging the Charger

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>>>>>>"Taran" == Taran Rampersad <[email protected]> writes:
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>    Taran> Unless you expect RMS to take the day off, I don't see how
>    Taran> the FSF would OK a license which interferes with one of the
>    Taran> Freedoms... But then again, there is DotGNU.
>
>And the FDL.  And, as Marshall already pointed out, BSD.
>
>Note carefully what I said:  the license itself will be free, because
>_it_ does not interfere with the freedoms.  In fact, it is more free
>in the sense that it permits redistributors to use more licenses.
>  
>
That's an arguable description of freedom, since the freedom you
describe is for a redistributor to lock code away - which is a violation
of the GPL, and if Stallman signed onto that, I'd love to know it.
That's the problem with the old BSD license, if you recall... and why
it's not considered a Free License.

>For those of us who believe that freedom is as freedom does, that's a
>good thing.  For those who believe that freedom must be en-, uh,
>-couraged, this license arguably fails to promote freedom.
>  
>
Well, maybe the difference is being the person who writes the code and
wants to profit versus the person who doesn't write the code and wants
to profit off of it.

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