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jimmaswell
on Sept 6, 2019
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Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this ...
Forcing your users to have to GPL any of their code based on your code is controlling them more than releasing under a more sane permissive license. It's ironic that GPL is the true restriction of freedom for all the virtues it touts.
saagarjha
on Sept 6, 2019
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The GPL is quite clear in the responsibilities you have: protecting freedom requires taking away the right to be able to curtail it.
jimmaswell
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Protecting Stallman's narrow, weird definition of freedom that I don't agree with, sure.
garmaine
on Sept 7, 2019
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Freedom to appropriate and oppress is a weird way of using the word “freedom.”
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