2009/1/9 Yavor Doganov <[email protected]>: > Martin Schröder wrote: >> It's not an incentive; it forces all consumers of GNUpdf to release >> their code under the GPL. > > Using the word "consumers" here shows a radically different point of > view, a way of thinking that I personally strongly disagree with. In
Customers would be a better term. > the free software movement, we call these entities "users", and they > all should have equal rights. I'm talking about developers releasing code which uses GNUpdf. > Deciding to license a particular software under the GPL doesn't force > you to do anything, as it is entirely *your* choice whether to use the > software or not. So "incentive" is a perfectly valid word in this > situation, although I'm not a native speaker (and I'm not going to > argue about linguistic issues). And nobody is forced to develope software using GNUpdf, right. Best Martin
