On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 02:07:17AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Sven Luther wrote: > > i believe much as you do above, and that debian-legal has been > > slanted much in defending the rights of the user of free software, > > at the detriment of the upstream author. > > Even though this is a tangent point, Free Software involves defending > the rights of a user of Free Software. If the upstream author wants to > protect and preserve their rights, they are interested in proprietary > software, not Free Software.
Protection against users not respecting the licence and reusing GPLed code in proprietary software for example ? Friendly, Sven Luther