On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:34:44PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Alexandre Oliva wrote: >>> But you must give up your freedom and rights or you are unable to >>> participate in distributing these things as part of a work that >>> contains any GPL-covered material. >> >> The "or" denounces your syllogism. The "must" is inappropriate when >> there's an alternative. > > The alternative is not sharing any GPL-encumbered code at all. Do you > consider that a reasonable alternative? People have been sharing and modifying software licensed with the GNU GPL for ages, isn't that alternative somewhat imaginary? You seem to consider "sharing" proprietary software is sharing. I think that's wrong since to me it is not sharing but, instead, gaining control. Rui -- Fnord. Today is Setting Orange, the 59th day of Confusion in the YOLD 3174 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
