On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 06:45:01PM +0100, Simo Sorce wrote:
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 18:10, Guillaume Ponce wrote:
In fact, there is a difference: with this free *and copyleft* / proprietary dual licencing you have to pay to have the power to deny other people de freedoms you received. With a non-copyleft free software licence, it's gratis to do so.
I don't like the idea of reducing freedom. And I don't like the idea of paying to have the power to do so...
It's wrong to say that they are reducing freedom.
You pay them to get a freedom reduced license... I would only pay to get more freedom. :)
If you feel the need to geet this incorporate into non-free software, why shouldn't everybody have this capability? In not choosing a less freedom protecting license, like the GNU LGPL or an XFree86 style license, you are holding back that freedom.