Care to point any other definition?

Care to point any other definition?

Posted Jul 28, 2009 6:20 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Care to point any other definition? by hppnq
Parent article: Launchpad source released

The purpose of all Free Software licenses is to provide freedom to the user, not the developer.

There are no distinguished users and developers in this world. Everyone uses the software and a lot of people change the software - especially if it's simple set of web scripts. The stated goals are "freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software". But what about the situation where these freedoms are in conflict? RMS showed how copyright is about conflicting goals of the same people - and how big corporations perverted these goals. The same thing starts to happen with free software with the advent of AGPL.

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