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Re: GNU License, Again
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Alfred M. Szmidt |
Subject: |
Re: GNU License, Again |
Date: |
Thu, 24 May 2007 21:48:02 +0200 |
> > But the free software is the GPL program -- how does it
> > protect free software by requiring that the non-GPL one
> > become GPL as well? The free software is only the GPL
> > program -- which can function on it's own, unlike the
> > non-GPL program, and if all sources to said GPL program
> > are divulged under GPL, then how is it made any less
> > free? It isn't!!!
> >
> > The end result is no longer free, since users are now
> > prohibited from running, studying, improving and
> > distributing the non-free program. The GPL sees that this
> > will never happen, and users are always guaranteed to always
> > be free.
>
> The _entire_ non-free program, of course -- but such a
> distribution would still keep the originally free code free.
>
> If the originally free code is linked to a propietery program,
> then the result is not free. The GPL sees that this will never
> happen.
But the originally free code is still made free. So I'm vindicated
in my understanding: It is designed to not only keep the original
free code free, but to make more code free.
The original is no longer free, since it depends on a non-free work.
The resulting work, a deriviate, is no longer free. And for the last
time, the GPL cannot make anything free, only the copyright holder
can.
- Re: GNU License, Again, (continued)
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