iPhone restricts users, GPLv3 frees them

[LuKreme]

On 1-Jul-2007, at 18:18, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> "Open source software" as such _never_ existed before the GPL. The  
> term itself was coined in opposition to what the FSF called free  
> software. So indeed, there was _no_ open source source software  
> before the GPL. Any claim to the contrary is BS. Now maybe it was  
> called something else, but I challenge you to remember the naming  
> at the time !

And keep in mind that what we think of as OSS is quite cleraly GPL.   
The BSD license is, and certainly was, a license in which it was very  
easy to take code, wrap your own 'brand' around it, not release the  
code you modified, and sell it for extortionary prices.  Which is  
what was happening.

On 1-Jul-2007, at 15:00, Charlton Wilbur wrote:
> 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;

Yeah, I have to disagree there.  OSS as we know it didn't exist  
before GPL and I don't see anything to convince me that it would  
exist without GPL.  What we would have is a core BSD that was free  
and a thousand customized version of BSD that are not.  That's where  
it was heading before GPL showed that you could have a complete OS  
that was completely free of all encumbrances.


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