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Comment by monochr

Which has nothing to do with what I asked about my freedoms as a user.

Developers think that licences that let them charge for binaries, restrict resales and keep competitors out are wonderful. The same way that banks think that debtor prisons were a wonderful idea and billionaires want a flat fixed dollar tax rate is the solution to every problem. There isn't much surprise there.

But for the majority of the people, who do not work in the one company releasing the binary, the GPL is infinitely freer than any of the anti-user licences he's listed as "less harmful".

So let me ask again: From the point of view of a user how is the MIT or BSD licence freer than the GPL?

parent monochr 12 years ago

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