From: Dave Neary (dave.neary at domain palamon.ie)
Date: Mon 01 Oct 2001 - 12:14:28 IST
Niall O Broin wrote:
> You're right of course - 5 of the last 7 years spent living in Germany have
> polluted my mind. It does tend to make French conversation very interetsing
> :-)
And I can vouch for that :)
> > (Anyway, I don't know how `libre,' forcing anyone who uses your code
> > to follow exactly your licence *is*, but that's a another discussion,
> > and hopefully OT here :-)
>
> It sometimes appears that hardly anything is OT here :-) and I certainly
> wouldn't imagine that the subtleties of the GPL are. I'm not quite RMS bu as
> it happens I do believe that the GPL license is the best free license. You
> get the software free (as in gratuit) and you may do it as you will BUT if
> you choose to sell it or otherwise provide it to others, modified or not,
> they receive the same freedoms (liberte et gratuite) as you did.
I'd say it's kind of the equivalent of saying "You are free, and (as a
matter of honour & justice) you are forbidden from keeping slaves". Not
total freedom, but it's a reasonable restriction. It reminds me of a
quote from a US Civil War film I saw - "They (the north) will win,
because they cannot bear us living how we want to live, whereas we do
not care how they live". That's a paraphrasal, by the way :)
Cheers,
Dave.
-- David Neary, E-Mail dave.neary at domain palamon.ie Palamon Technologies Ltd. Phone +353-1-634-5059
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