On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 05:17:18PM +0200, Sylvain Bertrand wrote: > On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 4:52 PM, hiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> use single GPL licensed software, use Linux and secure your digital > >> freedom! > > > > You think this is freedom? > > Freedom which does not defend itself *will* be abused again and again, > and after 15 years of software engineering, I said "it's over". You > care and want to be able to legally do something, GPL. You do not care > and don't want to legally be able to do something, BSD like/MIT > (Anselm choice). It's a matter of personal choice. Mine is GPL. > Usually students or people with a golden professional experience do > not understand "why the GPL". After being screwed several times, > coders usually do. > The only piece of freedom which is removed from the GPL is the piece > of freedom which allows to remove its freedom... For a consistent GPL > whole, you cannot close the code. > I'll stop here, since it's a dangerous path for this mailing list. > A more appropriate subject would be "how to fight against bloat in the > software stack?", don't you think?
Maybe I should consider writing my own license, which is somewhat copy-left, very short and judges not to exceed a certain complexity level in the software itself, otherwise it is considered a license violation ;) For example, the 2000 LOC license ;) Kind regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361