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On 16-Jul-08 10:22, Nicolas George wrote:
> andrel wrote in message <487### [at] hotmail com>:
>> I don't know about you but when I help my neighbor I don't usually ask
>> money for it.
>
> Depends on what your job is.
>
>> Indeed this precisely the tricky bit you left out. You are
>> not restricted in your freedom to redistribute copies, provided you are
>> not charging for it.
>
> And a prisoner is not restricted in his freedom to go wherever he wants,
> provided he is not leaving his cell.
>
> "Provided" is exactly a restriction.
yes I think I was aware of that. The point is that it does not restrict
the number nor in who can receive or give it. So the restriction is only
financially and not in principle. For me that is the most important part
of the freedom, you are of course free to feel any other way.
BTW not relevant to this discussion perhaps but no license will give you
total freedom. Even 'free software' does often (always?) not allow to be
sold in a closed form in a way that suggests that the seller developed
it himself. That too is a restriction. In that way every license has its
own restrictions, apparently some are deemed more important than others,
but which ones is a matter of taste and cultural background, I think.
Perhaps the only way to make it absolutely free is if you publish it
anonymous on a public server with a note that everything is allowed,
even hiding it in closed commercial code without attribution. Although
this license is not legally valid in most countries you may get away
with it.
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