On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Carsten Agger <agger@modspil.dk> wrote:

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The questions you ask here are very basic and can be answered by yourself if you read the articles at

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html carefully.

Yes, thank you, I've read it several times in the past 20 years of developing free software. I don't believe that the apparent irony of "freedom to license how you like" is addressed in those documents.

E.g., nobody are "giving away their intellectual property" when releasing free software e.g. under the GPL. And some of the main systems that govern your life actually *are* supposed to be transparent - e.g.. society, where you have various FOIA acts.

Note also that this mailing list is not organized by the FSF but by the FSFE, which is a different organization, thus questions about the FSF's stand on different subjects can't really be answered here. But the answers to the more basic points are at the gny.org/philosophy link.

Thanks, I am also aware that this is FSFE.

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