From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,faf964ea4531e6af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,43ae7f61992b3213 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: "Joshua E. Rodd" Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software Date: 1999/04/28 Message-ID: <3727B3E3.28755434@noah.dhs.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 472102732 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7fibd5$jc7$1@news2.tor.accglobal.net> <1rlV2.97$jw4.11389@burlma1-snr2> <7g5cb2$bjn$1@netnews.upenn.edu> <7g7o6d$lrj$1@flotsam.uits.indiana.edu> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@neo.rr.com X-Trace: dustdevil.neo.rr.com 925348835 24.93.213.213 (Wed, 28 Apr 1999 21:20:35 EDT) Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online -- Northeast Ohio MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 21:20:35 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1999-04-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Lynn Winebarger wrote: > In article , > Barry Margolin wrote: > >You can use other licenses than the GPL, but they have to be compatible -- > >they can't impose additional restrictions, but they can give additional > >freedoms. > Just curious - what more freedoms could they give? The MIT/X11 licence gives the ultimate freedom: the freedom to do as you ought, and even as you not ought--you are granted the freedom to take other's freedom away. [wondering if this is relevant to comp.long.ada--please tell me if it's annoying folks]