On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So there is a penalty for violating the restriction. Can you still claim > there is no restriction? I will no longer make you new copies of Linux CDs (or work on your bug reports) if you allow your dog to dig up my tulip bed. Have I placed a restriction on the free software that I've previously given you? Why would the situation change if I warned you about this reality in advance? On way of looking at free software licenses is: Free software licenses assure for the users of the software certain specific rights with the FSF believes are both necessary and sufficient for software to be considered free software. Additional powers, like the ability to get a software developer to listen to your bug reports, or a get distributor to print more disks for you, are external to those rights. These things are external to the license agreement, an necessarily so since no one would accept a license which make them unbounded slaves to all downstream recipients. ... such a stupid thread ... -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
