Re: Fuzzy machine learning framework v1.2

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

Le Mon, 28 May 2012 21:20:27 +0200, Ludovic Brenta  
<ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> a écrit:
> Stallman's only "nefarious purpose" is to prevent people from removing
> freedom from free software.
No. It was to force people to a its license, thus denying one's freedom to  
apply on it's own work. There is no way with whatever license to revoke  
it, only the copyright owner can do. Say you have a BSD library or  
application. Say one create a derivative work from it. Say he/she release  
it under proprietary  license (worst case to the eye of most consumers).  
Then, the original BSD library or application is still not proprietary, so  
no freedom is lost (Stallman's purpose was not to protect anything, but to  
force people). There is simply no way to remove freedom from anything,  
only the owner can do so (and anyway, could not apply to what was already  
distributed). Stallman created an fear which should have never existed, to  
force people, and mainly profited from the confusion between  
free-as-in-beer and free-as-in-speech, to promote it (personal opinion).  
GPL is more about free-as-in-beer than about free-as-in-speech, and the  
opposite for BSD and MIT (personal opinion again).


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