Re: Stallman's original intentions (was: Re: GMail is using Hspell!)

On Sunday, March 12 2006 12:39, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
> Hi Nadav, Omer,
> To release a piece of software under a well-understood license, and the=
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> suggest that there might be some philosophical problem when people in f=
act
> make use of the software *exactly* according to the license is well... =
and
> that's why I say that there is no philosophical case.
>

Of course there is a philosophical case. The issue here is, who is the us=
er.=20
While the service operators, when seen as users, are perfectly within the=
ir=20
rights, if you think of the end-users as users, then this method strips a=
way=20
software freedoms 1,2 & 3, and potentially 0.

To say, facing this, that the GPL is "well understood" and that free soft=
ware=20
developers should have no qualms is -- what's english for =D7=94=D7=AA=D7=
=9E=D7=9E=D7=95=D7=AA ?

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