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From: "Hyman Rosen" <hyman.rosen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: AdaCore ... the Next SCO?
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Preben Randhol wrote:
> Just for the record I'm not against GPL per se, just that I don't like
> posibility that one at some point end up in a quagmire where one cannot
> make anything without a GPL license. That is not Freedom.

It is, for the users of the software. You are forgetting, as
programmers so often do, that the freedom granted by the GPL is not for
the benefit of programmers. If, in the process of granting users the
freedom to run, read, modify, and share software it happens that
programmers are inconvenienced, the FSF does not care. If users wind up
with less software as a result, that is unfortunate, but not so
unfortunate as to require overriding the principles of users' software
freedom.

Remember that without the GPL, it's likely that some users down the
road will be denied the ability to exercise the freedoms that ought to
be theirs. AdaCore has done these users a favor by helping to limit how
much non-free software can be produced.