Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 03:35:16PM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: >> Because it's a copyright license. If I give away all these freedoms >> with respect to my work, then I should really be giving them away. If >> I'm only giving them away contingent on others with rights to the work >> giving theirs, I should negotiate that in an appropriately smoky back >> room -- and until all those show up freely, the software isn't free. > > You seem to be describing the difference between a public domain work > and a copyleft work, with the claim that copyleft software isn't free. > > Can you express your concept differently, in a way which doesn't include > this kind of nonsense?
This isn't nonsense. A copyleft license unambiguously releases rights for me to modify and distribute. I don't have to sacrifice *anything at all* which I had otherwise. This copy-to-patentleft sort of licence says I have to refrain from enforcing the patent rights which I had independent of the work, or I don't get a copyright license. That's no good. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]