<br><br>On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Christian Hufgard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pp@christian-hufgard.de">pp@christian-hufgard.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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> The GPL protects the users' freedom by not letting<br>
> anyone have the power you want. </div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">
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</div>But why is it bad to break the GPL and not bad to break copyrights? Just<br>
because you do not accept the contract, normal copyright implies?</blockquote><br>
Because breaking the GPL you take user's freedoms away, but breaking
privative licenses you give back user's freedoms to people. Those freedoms should
be recognised and enforced by law.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Christian Hufgard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pp@christian-hufgard.de">pp@christian-hufgard.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">Richard Stallman wrote:<br>
>> Oh, at the moment I am just talking about freedom. The freedom to take GPL<br>
>> code, modify it and sell the result without releasing it under GPL.<br>
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> This is not freedom, it is power. You want to be allowed to have power<br>
> over other people. The GPL protects the users' freedom by not letting<br>
> anyone have the power you want.<br>
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> You want to be allowed to have power over other people.<br>
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</div>Definitivly: No. Power imples responsibility. And I don't want to be<br>
responsibly for a too huge number of people.<br></blockquote><div><br>¿Power implies responsibility? I think you've seen Spiderman too many times :P<br><br> What you want is power indeed: you want to have the power to take away the freedoms that the GPL gives to the people. Present copyright laws allow privative licenses (those that take away people's freedoms) and also free (as in freedom) licenses like GPL. As I just said, breaking the GPL you take user's freedoms away, but breaking
privative licenses you give back user's freedoms<br><br>Félix<br></div></div><br>