On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 03:35:16PM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: > Because it's a copyright license. If I give away all these freedoms > with respect to my work, then I should really be giving them away. If > I'm only giving them away contingent on others with rights to the work > giving theirs, I should negotiate that in an appropriately smoky back > room -- and until all those show up freely, the software isn't free.
You seem to be describing the difference between a public domain work and a copyleft work, with the claim that copyleft software isn't free. Can you express your concept differently, in a way which doesn't include this kind of nonsense? -- Raul
