On 9/14/07, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms@1407.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 02:29:44PM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:24:25PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> > | > On 2007-09-14 11:13:11, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> > | > >
> > | > > The spirit of the GNU GPL is to maintain freedom for all users.
> > | >
> > | > You don't seem to get the fact that the BSD license is *more free*
> > | > than the GPL because the BSD license imposes *fewer requirements*
> > | > on distribution.
> > |
> > | You don't seem to get the fact that I'm not even talking about what's
> > | more or less free (in your definition). The BSD has fewer requirements,
> > | but it allows some users to not have the freedoms you claim to defend.
> >
> > And no, it does not.
>
> I'd love to see how an user who gets a modified binary version has the
> freedom to modify it. Go ahead. Prove me that it doesn't allow some users
> to loose freedom...
>

Ability and freedom are not synonyms.  I don't understand why you GPL
folks need to change the meanings of words to get your points across.

Greg

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