On Jun 14, 2007, Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 04:46:36PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> > Giving back "in kind" is obvious. I give you source code to do with as you
>> > see fit. I just expect you to give back in kind: source code for me to do
>> > with as I see fit, under the same license I gave you source code.
>>
>> > How hard is that to accept?
>>
>> Forgive me if I find this a bit hard, because that's *not* what the
>> GPL says.
> What part of the word "expect" did you not understand?
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/24/246
It asks everybody - regardless of circumstance - for the same thing.
It asks for the effort that was put into improving the software to
be given back to the common good. You can use the end result any
way you want (and if you want to use it for "bad" things, be my
guest), but we ask the same exact thing of everybody - give your
modifications back.
> And whats your point here anyway?
The the GPL doesn't do that. It encourages that. But what it asks
for is respect for the freedoms it defends WRT the software licensed
under it.
--
Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/
Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
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