This sort of doctrinaire newspeak is what gives GPL advocates the appearance of a cult.
Let's not throw around names... it's not out of comprehension to think of knowing what your computer is running as a fundamental right.
Developers who incorporate some open source code in their app and don't release it aren't taking away anyone's freedoms.
That's precisely it. I'm not asking you to agree with the FSF view, but to understand it. In the view of the GPL, distributing proprietary software is absolutely taking away people's rights of knowing what's running on their machine, modifying what they're running, etc.
Fundamental rights aren't always obvious, and whether or not this view will catch on is not something I pretend to know. I think this will be an open question for dozens, if not hundreds of years to come.
Let's not throw around names... it's not out of comprehension to think of knowing what your computer is running as a fundamental right.
Developers who incorporate some open source code in their app and don't release it aren't taking away anyone's freedoms.
That's precisely it. I'm not asking you to agree with the FSF view, but to understand it. In the view of the GPL, distributing proprietary software is absolutely taking away people's rights of knowing what's running on their machine, modifying what they're running, etc.
Fundamental rights aren't always obvious, and whether or not this view will catch on is not something I pretend to know. I think this will be an open question for dozens, if not hundreds of years to come.