On Friday 26 June 2009, Harald Kipp wrote: > The intention of GPL is to explicitly give users the > freedom to use GPL software in any way they see fit.
Assuming "use" doesn't include depriving others of such freedoms ... that's just *ONE* of its intentions Another is to be able to *keep doing* that even in the face of, say, a manufacturer changing support policies when an OS upgrade or new model happens. Recall that one of the original motivations for the Free Software movement was hardware related: the manufacturer of a printer changed policies to remove some of those Freedoms. ISTR for example the ability to run a driver that notified about job completion, which mattered a lot to people on other floors. And that's why GPL restricts distribution of GPL software with non-Free libraries. If it didn't, then the users relying on the non-Free code would not have the full set of Freedoms intended by GPL. - Dave _______________________________________________ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
