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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: ee9, the GNU Ada KDF9 emulator, now on Raspberry Pi
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Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:

> Fritz Wuehler wrote on comp.lang.ada
>> you can't have both. Either it's "free software" or it's GPL.
>
> GPL software is not free to become non-free :)
>
> Rather: you are not free to make GPL software proprietary.

In a nutshell: your freedom (to examine, copy, modify and distribute
software) stops where the freedom of the next person (to also examine,
copy, modify and distribute the same software) starts.  Therefore you do
not have the freedom to restrict other people's freedom.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.