Re: Challenge: Find potential use cases for non-trivial confinement

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 06:44:25PM +0200, Pierre THIERRY wrote:

> Remember that there is no clause in GCC license that forbids its use
> with proprietary software. Maybe because *this* is really supporting
> freedom.

Wrong. That's not freedom. That's anarchy.

Sure, some argue that only anarchy is real freedom. But this is clearly
not the kind of freedom advocated by GNU philosophy.

GNU explicitely does *not* support the "freedom" to distribute non-free
software. The GCC case is a strategic compromise. Such compromises need
to be weighted very cautiously, and DRM mechanisms clearly fall a long
way outside any acceptable comprimise.

-antrik-