[Introspector-developers] Fwd: Re: Corba interfacesand GPL freedom

[James M. D. <mdu...@ya...>]

here is a relevant thread to the license debate :
http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:sss:7115:njnpnenpjcebichpnajn#b

good quote :
--- David Johnson <da...@us...> wrote:
 > The freedom of the GPL code is still there. 100% free.
> You can take the server with the new API and write a free client for
it.
> So  can anyone else. That there happens to be proprietary client
available 
> is irrelevant. You seem to be arguing that the provisions of the GPL 
> should extend beyond the code it is attached to and regulate external
> and non-derivative works. The would make the GPL an offensive weapon,
instead of the defensive shield it currently is.
> 
> Trying to extend the GPL beyond the boundaries of copyright law is 
> extremely dangerous. The client application above is not your code.
> You 
> have no legal, ethical or moral rights over it. Attempting to control
> it is tyranny, the very thing the GPL is fighting against. Freedom is
> 
> about removing restrictions, not replacing them with others.


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James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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