iPhone restricts users, GPLv3 frees them

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

On 4 juil. 07, at 00:20, David P. Henderson wrote:

> On 03 Jul 2007, at 10:29, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
>
>> Think Kerberos and the way it has been modified by Microsoft to  
>> ruin the efforts of the community to have a vendor neutral protocol.
>>
>> Was it added value ? No, it was just distorting the original so  
>> that nobody would use it anymore. Was that innovation ? No, it was  
>> stealing, plain and simple.
>>
>> Obviously the Kerberos developers with their MIT license had not  
>> considered the consequences of their move...
>
> How exactly would the GPL have stopped MS from doing this to Kerberos.

Figure it out yourself...

> There have been many complaints from the KHTML community that Apple  
> did exactly this when it adopted KHTML for use in Web Kit. And  
> there was absolutely nothing the KHTML creators could do to stop  
> Apple since it followed the letter of the license.

How can you know since there is no code audit possible ? Not that I  
am suspecting Apple of wrongdoing but unless you are an insider at  
Apple I don't see how you have access to that information.

> All code bases under open source licenses can be readily abused  
> intentionally or not without violating the terms of the license.

Like how ? Like Tivo ? How many other examples do you have ?

> Continuing to use phrases like "steal," "stealing," and "theft"  
> with regard to licenses which approximate public domain make you  
> sound like a marxist chanting, "property is theft."

And you don't like chants ? Or is their a deeper meaning to that ad- 
hominem ? And where did you see that copyright "approximates" public  
domain ? Public domain is specifically where there is no copyright.

Jean-Christophe Helary