I don't realise why lose time with these debate about GPL.
Is pro-common, nobody can close de souces because are open for the
innovation an education etc...
And the most important: this is possible because exist free software
under the same license used to create the code: the SO, the text
editors, the compilers, the programing language...
Betwen, Apple stole the developers with the BSD license, including in
the core of the OSX code from apps developed for others, because in
according of that license, you can do this... and your work (your
functional program) simply desappear...
The license isn't about violence... is about dignity and freedom. If
somebody do something against the license, isn't a poor guy trying to
have a normal work... is somebody that have the knowledge and
resources to use the code in a wrong way... like in the case of
linksys with the routers working in secret with gnu-linux inside...
The SO gnu-linux is so powerfull today because are protected for
GPL-based license. If you don't agree, you can use openBSD or freeBSD
or Mac, no problem...
And don't use the programs with these licenses too. You can review
this detail in the info about the package.
Kisses
D3
On 14/12/13 11:19, Mike Gogulski wrote:
> On 12/14/2013 12:37 AM, Amir Taaki wrote:
>> We can link together, pool resources and build common
>> infrastructure while securing a dignified existence for
>> ourselves.
>
> I submit that attaching a threat to use (state) violence against
> people who use that common infrastructure out of conformance with
> the author's /diktat/ is itself undignified. Exceedingly so.
>
>> Or we can lock ourselves away, fight against each other, erect
>> walls and put our trust into central power which derives its
>> legitimacy and consent through the front of authority.
>
> This is exactly what folks who apply state-backed copyleft
> licensing like the GPL to their creations are doing. The GPL relies
> fundamentally upon that illegitimate, unsupportable, justly-hated
> central authority for its very wording.
>
> Amir, when you find someone using your GPL-branded code having
> stripped the licensing and attribution from it and without having
> released the source code, are you going to personally threaten that
> person with physical harm? Call the police? Call a lawyer? If
> you're not willing to take such steps, then you have no need of the
> GPL. And if you are willing to do so, a tribunal will be convened
> to consider the revocation of your anarchism merit badge.
>
> Peace, Mike
>
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