Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] New form of GPL licence that protects Linux from proprietary world [was: New powermacs?]
From: Marc Lavallée (odradek_AT_videotron.ca)
Date: Sun Jun 22 2003 - 17:20:16 EEST
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Le 22 Juin 2003 07:28, Ivica Bukvic a écrit :
> Many of you have pointed out that limiting GPL would hinder the freedom
> it stands for. I agree. I never meant to change THE GPL, but rather to
> create an offspring GPL-like license that had my suggested restrictions.
So basically, you want to restrict the use of a software to a specific
type of operating system? Like M$ does?
> Dual licensing perhaps is the best option at this moment. I feel very
> strongly about this since it protects all of our efforts and time
> investments in Linux.
This is against the idea of free software. I never heard of a free
software license that restricts the use of a software to a specific type
of operating system, computer of peripheral. Adding this restriction to
the GPL and use double licensing would not make it better, it would make
it non-free. Read the GPL. Here's an excerpt: "Activities other than
copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License;
they are outside its scope."
> I would also suggest to be careful of the "elitist" talk how Linux'
> freedom offers less commonly used apps and hence the art of a Linux
> user is somehow better than of the others.
So GNU/Linux users are elitists because they can use command line tools?
You sound like a typical elitist Mac user... ;-)
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Marc
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