On Sat, Nov 04, 2017 at 05:29:00PM +0000, Simon Hobson wrote: > his very rigid attitude to freedom in software
I'd prefer if this attitude was more rigid. For example, AGPL -- even worse as GPL-3 allows an "upgrade" to this non-free crock. It breaks FSF Freedom 0 "the freedom to use for any purpose": you can't take any code from an AGPLed project and use it within any networked scenario that doesn't provide a way to advertise the source, such as an IMAP server, a wifi-connected lift control (visit Google's offices in Zurich and they'll mention this every time), or a light dimmer. How do you propose the interface in the last case to be? "Raise your hand to turn light on, lower it to turn off, hop to recite the source"? AGPL also breaks DFSG Dissident Test: take a blogging platform, which has two tiers of users: your dissident friends who send secret steganographic messages, and regular bloggers whose content unknowingly gets some HTML tags reordered to smuggle those secret messages. AGPL would require revealing the secret, regular GPL doesn't endanger you in any way (only the fellow dissidents who need an encoder/decoder receive its sources). Or, GFDL. Besides obviously non-free immutable sections and front/back covers (which don't even allow you to correct an error, remove "Ode to Hitler" a previous maintainer add, etc), GFDL even disallows chmod -r or locking the door to your server room. A key might be 5000 years old technology but is still technology. > without him (and others with similar views) we certainly would not be > where we are now. Hell yeah. Despite some flaws, he's one of greatest heroes we have. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Laws we want back: Poland, Dz.U. 1921 nr.30 poz.177 (also Dz.U. ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ 1920 nr.11 poz.61): Art.2: An official, guilty of accepting a gift ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ or another material benefit, or a promise thereof, [in matters ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ relevant to duties], shall be punished by death by shooting. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
