Re: GPL [Was: CarrierIQ Software and Forth]

From	Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: GPL [Was: CarrierIQ Software and Forth]
Date	2011-12-30 22:58 +0100
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Rod Pemberton wrote:
> Without profit potential, there is
> no capitalism.  FOSS eliminates a large part of the potential capital
> market for software.  That leads to unemployment in a capitalist
> society.

That's competition.  Capitalism is about free markets and competition.  
When the majority of employers don't understand that the market is 
changing, and still follow an outdated business model, they deserve to 
die.  That's a very market liberal doctrine.

> Your response is out of context.

No, I'm trying to put your attention to the context - this is all under 
copyright rule, which introduces these problems in the first place.  
It's not the fault of the copyleft that our society has ridiculous and 
harmful rules, it's the fault of politicians and voters.

> The point is that MS-DOS has the
> issue of
> locating the original authors and so too will GPL.  At some point,
> people will start converting or attempting to convert LGPLv2 to GPLv2,
> and GPLv2 to
> GPLv3, etc.  I've seen it happen on a few projects already.  To do so,
> they'll need the original copyright owner's permission.  What do you
> do when
> you can't contact or locate them?  Start over?

In general, you don't need that.  The standard GPLv2 says that you can 
use that or any later version of the GPL.  The author has to be specific 
about the GPL version to deny that change (the Linux authors did so).  
When they were specific, it's quite likely that you can't convince them 
even when you find them.

> Why should FOSS be restricted to non-commercial use simply because
> they decide not to release their changes?

It is not restricted to non-commercial.  Again: RedHat is a billion 
dollar revenue company, you can't say they are non-commercial.  Or 
Google.  Not everything Google does is open source, but those parts that 
are for sure make more than a billion dollar, just like IBM, who also 
has at least a billion dollar revenue from FOSS.  For in-house projects 
like Google's server farm, they even don't have to release their 
changes.

What kind of straw-man argument are you putting up?  These are just 
factual errors.  You are confusing commercial interests with a 
particular outdated and failing business model.

> It's wierd that you conflate freedom with constraint. 

Freedom always is limited by the freedom of others.  To ensure a free 
world, you must make sure nobody can take away the freedom of weaker 
peers.  That's why I don't like to live in a purely capitalistic world - 
there, the rich people are free, and the poor are either enslaved or 
starving, because there are insufficient rules to protect the poors from 
having their rights taken away.

The GPL tells you that you can do whatever you want with the software 
that you recieve, *and* that everybody else can do whatever they want 
with this software, and you can't take this away.

You want the freedom to take freedom away, and don't realize that this 
leads to a non-free world.

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://bernd-paysan.de/

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