On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:50:45PM +0000, Sebastien Carlier wrote:
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> Your point is that the BSD license is a "wrong" because it gives people
> too much freedom.  You just stated this again, even more clearly than in
> your earlier message.

No, I never said the BSD license is wrong, you said that, not me.

What I say is that it doesn't fulfill the goal of preserving freedom for all
users. That is the GPL's goal, and the only restrictions it has aim to prevent
anyone from reducing the rights granted by the GNU GPL.

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> > In my point of view, that is a social failure, which the GPL aims to end.
> 
> So, you are indeed taking the point of view that there is "good freedom"
> and "bad freedom", and that coercion is needed to allow "good freedom"
> to prevail.  I am glad you said so since it is totally related to what
> follows.  

No, again it is you who's saying those horrible things. I never said that.
In my point of view, I don't like to see anyone removing freedom from other
users, hence I grant rights with the condition they aren't removed. I think
that's fair, and not protecting that is a social failure.

Something that has failed is quite different from something that is bad. Many
excellent things have failed in such a way along history.

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> We agree that we disagree, please could you stop the noise?

You're adding noise too. If you are sincere about wanting to end noise don't
reply.

Rui

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