[Haskell-cafe] Re: Hmm, what license to use?

Manlio Perillo wrote:

Colin Paul Adams ha scritto:

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> "Thomas" == Thomas Davie writes:

Thomas> Sorry, this isn't the most relevant comment to the Thomas> discussion, but I thought I'd add my own thought re the Thomas> gpl/lgpl. My personal feeling is that the point of open Thomas> source is to allow people the freedom to do what they Thomas> want with a piece of code. The GPL/LGPL go completely Thomas> against this idea, in that they restrict what I can do Thomas> with the code to only things that are similarly Thomas> licensed.

No, the point of free software is to prevent people from denying other people the right to use the code.

Allowing people to do what they like at the expense of other people is not freedom.

When I compare GPL and MIT/BSD licenses, I do a simple reasoning. Suppose a doctor in a battle field meet a badly injuried enemy. Should he help the enemy?

I think your example is a little flawed, I'd see it like this: Is the patient conscious? Is he still holding his gun? If yes, get the hell away. -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for copyright history. All rights reserved. Copying, hiring, renting, performance and/or broadcasting of this signature prohibited.