On 05/12/2007, vijay chopra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, I'm arguing that anyone has the right to stop saying "I love apples" if > they so wish.
No, you're not. I'm not even sure /what/ you're arguing. When I write some software and license it under the GPL I am giving you some freedoms you didn't have before. I specifically waiver freedoms given to me by copyright law so that YOU may do more things with my creative work. You are free not to use my software or print the source code as many times as you want or any of the other muddy analogies you have drawn between software and "freedom of speech" What I DO object to however is if you take my software and rip out the freedoms I sacrificed in the first place. If you take my software, remove the freedoms, and then give to someone else. Why on earth would I want to give you the "freedom" to do this? Who are YOU to take MY creative work and shackle it with more restrictions? This has nothing to do with freedom of speech, the two concepts are totally unrelated and you are confusing matters greatly by trying to find a link where there is non. > Actually I mentioned a holocaust denier as an example of someone an holding > an extreme point of view. Godwin does not apply. I don't care how you mentioned it, when a discussion about the GPL starts to involve /anything/ related to the Holocaust it's a good indicator that things have started to get a bit silly. -- Noah Slater <http://bytesexual.org/> "Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results." - R. Stallman - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
