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Good ol' BSD vs. GPL

On Mon, 5 Jan 2015 02:59:33 -0500
grarpamp <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 12:35 AM, Rob Myers <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Both restore rights that copyright otherwise restricts.
> 
> No. Copyright exists automatically in default state of "all rights
> reserved".


	No. Copyright is just a state-granted privilege. A part of the
	fake 'intellectual property' collection of 'rights'.


	


> Any "restoration" you may wish or take for yourself
> within that is an abuse of the author's rights as you have none. Any
> rights to the author's work you may have are granted to you as the
> author chooses. Subject to various limited notions...
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_safety_valves
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing
> 
> > The GPL ensures that you are free to use the software even if you
> > receive it from a third party.
> > BSD doesn't do that.
> 
> Yes it does. The author can slap BSD or GPL on it, give it to Alice
> who gives it to Bob who gives it Carl who gives it to you which you
> then "use". There's no difference between the two there.
> 
> > Therefore BSD "grants" less freedom than the GPL.
> 
> No it doesn't. This has already been explained. GPL people often
> confuse freedom vs force(d open source redistribution), and permissive
> vs restrictive. Don't get confused.
> 
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_international_copyright_treaties
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_copyright
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-copyright
> Yarr!