On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 11:39 +0000, Sebastien Carlier wrote:
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> Rui,
> 
> On 2007-09-14 11:13:11, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> >
> > The spirit of the GNU GPL is to maintain freedom for all users.
> 
> You don't seem to get the fact that the BSD license is *more free*
> than the GPL because the BSD license imposes *fewer requirements*
> on distribution.
> 
> Do you seriously believe people have to be coerced into being "free"?

If you call the power to handcuff users to your customized code based on
a BSD-licensed original an additional "freedom", then you're right, and
you should be working for Microsoft, Apple, or some other company that
makes their profits by putting walls between computer users.

I don't call that a freedom. That's no more a right than the right to
keep another human being as a slave. We (in the US) got rid of that
particular broken system over a century ago, and for good reason.

-- 
Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn@speakeasy.net>