Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757443AbYGRTkK (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:40:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754564AbYGRTj5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:39:57 -0400 Received: from mail-in-09.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.49]:53726 "EHLO mail-in-09.arcor-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754557AbYGRTj4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:39:56 -0400 From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Subject: Re: GPL version 4 To: Morton Harrow , Kasper Sandberg , Miod Vallat , licensing@fsf.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rms@gnu.org, claire.newman@canonical.com, announce@fsfeurope.org, misc@openbsd.org, ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com, fedora-list@redhat.com, netbsd-users@netbsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: 7eggert@gmx.de Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:42:42 +0200 References: User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Message-Id: X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-Information: See www.mailscanner.info for information X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-From: 7eggert@gmx.de Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1015 Lines: 15 Morton Harrow wrote: > I see with pain in my heart that the GPLv3 doesn't actually give the > users of GPLv3 software the liberty and freedom the FSF has been > fighting for. Instead they are forced to play by the strict set of > terms the GPLv3 provides. > > For example, as a liberated computer user, I might like to incorporate > a high quality piece of GPLv3 software in a commercial product, > which for bussiness strategic reasons happens to be closed source software. > But the GPLv3 denies my claim for this freedom to do this. Would you grant me the freedom to give away your commercial product for free or to incorporate it in my commercial product? Probably not. You'd instead grant me less freedom. The GPL protects me from this. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/