GPL version 4

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Thu Jul 17 15:42:08 UTC 2008


Adam Hoka wrote:

> Richard M Stallman wrote:
> 
>> If you want to use a simple permissive license such as the X11 license
>> for your code, just go ahead.  It is a free software license (see
>> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html), so the FSF will say
>> this is basically ok.
> 
> Again, GPL restricts us if we do. So we shouldn't use such software?
> We are not users? We can't have our freedom?

Sure you can, but not with _my_ code.  If I release the code under GPL, I'm
saying I don't want you redistributing my code _except_ under the GPL.
-- 
derek





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