Patrick Maupin <pmau...@gmail.com> writes: > On May 7, 5:33 pm, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > > Since no-one is forcing anyone to take any of the actions permitted > > in the license, and since those actions would not otherwise be > > permitted under copyright law, it's both false and misleading to > > refer to them as “forced”. > > Again, the force is applied once you choose to do a particular thing > with the software
And again, that would be the case with or without the specific free software license, so it's false and misleading to say the license forces anything. The actions that are prohibited are prohibited by copyright law, not by the license. I think we're done here. -- \ “Members of the general public commonly find copyright rules | `\ implausible, and simply disbelieve them.” —Jessica Litman, | _o__) _Digital Copyright_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
