Richard Stallman wrote:
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
Copyleft is not a restriction. It is a defense against restrictions
imposed by middlemen on the users.
To be fair, or more accurately, to pick a nit, any license terms that
include the terms "must" or "may not" are, by definition, restrictions -
in the case of Copyleft, restrictions on what middlemen can do. (Not
that I disagree with those restrictions, mind you.)
Cheers,
Miles Fidelman
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
