Re: Fuzzy machine learning framework v1.2

[Gustaf Thorslund <gustaf@thorslund.org>]

On 2012-05-28 20:34, Nomen Nescio wrote:

> Freedom means the absence of restriction,

I don't disagree with restrictions in freedom.

>> discussions will necessarily lead into morass.
>
> Only for liars and politicians. Everyone else agrees what freedom means.

Then lets find out who of us is the liar and who is the politician.

>> The GPL is openly stating the restrictions it imposes on the uses of a
>> work
>
> Bzzt! There's your answer, it's not free.
>
>> (tit for tat at the source level).  The more permissive licenses do that,
>> too (for example, "keep us out of it"). The sets of "may (not) do this or
>> that" terms are different.
>
> The MIT license doesn't seem to have any restrictions at all. The BSD
> license seems to say "don't say you wrote this" but otherwise you can do
> what you want. They're saying you shouldn't lie or plagiarize, but that is
> not a restriction. They could also say not to rob or murder, but all of
> those things are already agreed by society to be wrong and they have nothing
> to do with the software itself, so I think the (new) BSD and MIT licenses
> are really free software licenses. There are others.

Without closing your eyes, please read:
   http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php

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I'd say there are a number of restrictions here. To me it makes sense to 
have them there to give the original developer some kind of freedom in 
the rest of his life. But for anyone extending the work it could be seen 
as a restriction.

Regards,
Gustaf
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