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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