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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:43:29 +1100 (EST)
From: Damien Miller <djm@...drot.org>
To: Mark Kirkwood <markir@...adise.net.nz>
cc: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
<ubuntu-users@...ts.ubuntu.com>,
Morton Harrow <mharrow@...uxmail.org>,
Miod Vallat <miod@...ine.fr>, rms@....org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, fedora-list@...hat.com,
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claire.newman@...onical.com, freebsd-questions@...ebsd.org
Subject: Re: GPL version 4
moving misc@...nbsd.org 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@...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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