On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:09:01PM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: > Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Brian Thomas Sniffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> Why is granting of extra freedoms non-free? > >> > >> It isn't. The part of my message that you snipped made clear that > >> it's the requirement that I must grant extra permissions which is > >> non-free. > > > > What is the difference between granting of extra permissions and > > granting of extra freedoms? > > Nothing. Therefore, I require you to grant me a permissive license to > all code you have ever written. > > Oh wait, that doesn't seem free to you? Why? Because it's a > requirement. What's the difference between charity and tax? Tax is a > requirement, charity is freely given.
That's not a fair example because all the code he has ever written is not a derived work from the licensed code. Just because there are requirements of people receiving the license to give up something does not make it non-free. - David Nusinow
