iPhone restricts users, GPLv3 frees them

[Charlton Wilbur]

On Jul 1, 2007, at 8:18 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:

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> On 2 juil. 07, at 06:00, Charlton Wilbur wrote:
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>> The GPL no more *caused* open source than the BSD license did;  
>> they were both part of the same movement, that arose for the same  
>> reasons; the difference is that Stallman was rather more strident  
>> and had a rather more ideological take on the whole thing.
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> Interesting how people who favor the GPL can be called "nutters"  
> "communists" on a list of seemingly reasonable people.

It's not favoring the GPL that makes you a nutter; it's ignoring or  
rewriting history to favor the GPL, or redefining terms such as  
"free" to cast only the GPL in a favorable light, to wit:

> And singling out the FSF and Stallman for their "ideology" is a  
> little preposterous. The OSI definitely represents another ideology  
> and the the BSD/MIT too. Such licenses are _not_ part of the same  
> movement as the GPL at all. They were developed with a closed code  
> release in mind and the openness of the code as a by-product  
> necessary for academic activity.
>
> Who would have imagined at that time that most of the code would be  
> released _out_ of academic or enterprise circles at the time, and  
> that most of the code would be used outside those circles anyway.
>
> The GPL and other free license represent the will of the individual  
> to actually ensure the code is shared equally and _never_ stolen.

Nutter, nutter, nutter.  "Only the GPL is *truly* free, because even  
though there were all these *other* people allowing others free  
access to their code, they didn't *really* mean to give it away,  
because they weren't using the GPL -- so all the other licenses that  
allowed people to read, modify, and redistribute the code without  
restriction might as well retroactively not have existed, and even  
though they placed fewer restrictions on what one could do with the  
code than the GPL does, they weren't *truly* free."

Charlton


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