>The GPL is really about enforcing your ideals onto other people's code if it happens to be reliant on yours.
Oh please, enough with the bs, your code won't just 'happen' to be relient on GPL licenced code. It's just as much of a choice as that of end users choosing not to use proprietary code which you keep repeating.
And of course it has to do with user rights, that is what GPL preserves.
The right to the source code of a binary containing GPL licenced code, the right to modify and build binaries from that said source code.
It legally binds anyone who uses GPL licenced code to grant those _rights_ to their end users.
Being able to examine the code for the ACTUAL binary you recieve, rather than some original source code which may very well have gone through numerous changes before being compiled into the ACTUAL binary you recieve are very different things.
And I've already described how from a developer standpoint this is of importance as they are likely interested in recieving enhancements to their code in 'source code form' if they choose to licence under GPL, but it's also of importance in other aspects aswell since you as an end user may want to examine the source code to make sure it doesn't do something you don't want, or change it's behaviour to do something _you_ do want.
Those are definitely 'user' rights.
Oh please, enough with the bs, your code won't just 'happen' to be relient on GPL licenced code. It's just as much of a choice as that of end users choosing not to use proprietary code which you keep repeating.
And of course it has to do with user rights, that is what GPL preserves.
The right to the source code of a binary containing GPL licenced code, the right to modify and build binaries from that said source code.
It legally binds anyone who uses GPL licenced code to grant those _rights_ to their end users.
Being able to examine the code for the ACTUAL binary you recieve, rather than some original source code which may very well have gone through numerous changes before being compiled into the ACTUAL binary you recieve are very different things.
And I've already described how from a developer standpoint this is of importance as they are likely interested in recieving enhancements to their code in 'source code form' if they choose to licence under GPL, but it's also of importance in other aspects aswell since you as an end user may want to examine the source code to make sure it doesn't do something you don't want, or change it's behaviour to do something _you_ do want.
Those are definitely 'user' rights.