Stallman on GCC, LLVM, and copyleft
Stallman on GCC, LLVM, and copyleft
Posted Jan 25, 2014 15:46 UTC (Sat) by drago01 (subscriber, #50715)In reply to: Stallman on GCC, LLVM, and copyleft by pboddie
Parent article: Stallman on GCC, LLVM, and copyleft
> But what if you modify the software and distribute it only as a binary to other people?
Then this specific software is non free same if said vendor has written one from scratch.
> That's what copyleft has to do with freedom.
Copyleft just ensures that derived work is free as well. (which isn't a bad thing at all) but this in itself is a restriction so you cannot really argue that copyleft is free while non copyleft open source isn't (which actually allows the user to do more).
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