Colin Paul Adams ha scritto:
"Thomas" == Thomas Davie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:Thomas> Sorry, this isn't the most relevant comment to the Thomas> discussion, but I thought I'd add my own thought re the Thomas> gpl/lgpl. My personal feeling is that the point of open Thomas> source is to allow people the freedom to do what they want Thomas> with a piece of code. The GPL/LGPL go completely against Thomas> this idea, in that they restrict what I can do with the Thomas> code to only things that are similarly licensed. No, the point of free software is to prevent people from denying other people the right to use the code. Allowing people to do what they like at the expense of other people is not freedom.
When I compare GPL and MIT/BSD licenses, I do a simple reasoning. Suppose a doctor in a battle field meet a badly injuried enemy. Should he help the enemy? Manlio Perillo _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
