Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 17:09, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: >> Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > >> > 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. > > No, it seems non-free because it's a contamination of other software, > which is something we believe to be outside the scope of a free software > license.
Hm. It is objectionable because it's a contamination, but I think it's also objectionable because it's a requirement that distribution of modifications be under a license the modifier didn't have. In any case, a more direct answer is that your original question about the difference between grants of permissions and freedoms is irrelevant. I was and am talking about the difference between a grant of extra permissions and a compelled grant of extra permissions, and objecting to the compulsion as non-free. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
