Re: [Trisquel-users] occupygpl.org wants to make copyleft licenses go away

[adrian . malacoda]

That is usually how someone "uses" a program, yes. I'm aware that people  
sometimes broaden "use" to mean distributing or incorporating something into  
another program, but from a legal perspective, a user is someone who runs a  
program. In this manner, free software licenses do not restrict use in the  
slightest (and they cannot, or else they do not meet the Free Software  
Definition). Copyleft only kicks in when the program is distributed, which is  
something else entirely.