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GPLv3 is designed to ensure the software user's freedomGPLv3 is designed to ensure the software user's freedomPosted Oct 26, 2006 2:44 UTC (Thu) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)In reply to: GPLv3 is designed to ensure the software user's freedom by bignose Parent article: Linux: GPLv3, DRM, and Exceptions (KernelTrap.org)
> The problem GPLv3 is addressing, in this case, is the unwilling contribution by free software developers to explicitly non-free distribution.
A noble goal, for sure (I'm not being sarcastic here, I promise).
However, in the case of Linux (or other similar software) this would have a side effect of killing the development efforts of many of those developers. So, instead of just killing "non-free distribution", communities and a lot of contributions useful elsewhere would be killed with it as well. All of which is just collateral damage to FSF, I guess.
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GPLv3 is designed to ensure the software user's freedom Posted Oct 26, 2006 2:54 UTC (Thu) by bignose (subscriber, #40) [Link] > this would have a side effect of killing the development efforts of many of those developers. So, instead of just killing "non-free distribution", communities and a lot of contributions useful elsewhere would be killed with it as well.
I guess our crystal balls must be tuned to different futures. I plan to keep working toward the future I see in mine.
Thanks for the discussion, I'm stopping here.
GPLv3 is designed to ensure the software user's freedom Posted Oct 26, 2006 3:00 UTC (Thu) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link] > Thanks for the discussion, I'm stopping here.
Thanks for your time. I enjoyed the discussion.
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