iPhone restricts users, GPLv3 frees them

[Charlton Wilbur]

On Jul 1, 2007, at 4:15 PM, LuKreme wrote:

> On 30-Jun-2007, at 19:30, Chad Leigh wrote:
>> On Jun 30, 2007, at 3:20 PM, LuKreme wrote:
>>> On 29-Jun-2007, at 23:42, Chad Leigh -- ObjectWerks Inc wrote:
>>>> There are real open source licenses out there that work well.  I  
>>>> am all for OSS.  I am not for GPL software.  It calls itself  
>>>> "free" which is rather bold of them since it is not free in the  
>>>> least.  It comes with a whole ton of baggage.
>>>
>>> To be fair, the only reason there are OSS licenses in existence  
>>> is because of the GPL.
>>
>> Absurd.  There were various other licenses like the BSD license  
>> before the GPL existed I think
>
> Yes, the BSD license 'existed'
>
> Of course, BSD was locked up under AT&T at the time, so the fact  
> there was a BSD license was largely irrelevant.

Other projects used the BSD license.

> Do you really think that we'd have the OSS and OSS licenses we have  
> without the GPL?

Yes.  And without Stallman and the GPL, we'd have a lot fewer pissing  
contests about true software freedom.  Whether it would be worth  
losing gcc and emacs is a tough call.

Honestly, there needs to be a GPL-nutters mailing list.

Charlton


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