Re: ANN: Fuzzy machine learning framework v1.2

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Mon, 28 May 2012 19:42:54 +0200, Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> a  
écrit:

> Kulin <remailer@reece.net.au> writes:
>
>> I thought the GPL was about intellectual rights denial
>
> Nonsense.

In one sense, this make sense.

Say you create a fork of some library or application, covered by the GPL.  
You are forced to use the GPL to distribute it, or else, forced to not  
distribute it. That's that kind of denial of intellectual rights people  
complaining about the GPL typically means (I'm just guessing that was the  
same for him). Things are like you are not allowed to be the owner of your  
own work. That's why some people keep GPL far away from them (even a  
single line of GPL inside a million lines application would expose the  
case). Either they work on their own peace of work (even recreate what's  
GPL, if necessary), or on someone else work, only if the license does not  
deny their property and freedom with their *own work*.

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