RJack <user@example.net> writes:
Hyman Rosen wrote:
Remember, the purpose of the GPL is to provide freedom for users
of software. That's why users are permitted to do all of this
without restriction. But in order to provide freedom for all
users, once someone wants to convey a covered work, they must do
so under the terms of the GPL, so that the recipients can share
in the same freedom.
Remember. . . LMAO.
Anything Richard Stallman dreams up, including the claim that "a
copyright license is not a contract" is in your credo. Good luck.
History is replete with pseudo Karl Marx's who believed their
belief system would free mankind from their conception of tyranny.
Marx offered not as much a belief system as historical predictions
(not as far off the mark as many want to believe, but also not
on-spot: apparently quite a bit of historic inevitability was
evitable) and sort of a call to arms. It was the job of others to
make a pseudo-belief system from that. Somewhat ironically, to the
detriment of some of his predictions.
They've all failed dismally. Happy philosophizing.
Well, you can't have both. If you choose to count Stallman among
Marxists, obviously they have not "all failed dismally". Free
software is exploding in importance.