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Joseph Graham has written a very short blog post about software freedom and the direction we might take to achieve it.
The free software movement, founded in the 80s by Richard Stallman and supported by the Free Software Foundations 1, 2, 3, 4, preaches that we need software that gives us access to the code and the copyright permissions to study, modify and redistribute. While I feel this is entirely true, I think it's not the best way to explain Free Software to people.
I think the problem we have is better explained more like this:
"Computer technology is complicated and new. Education about computers is extremely poor among all age groups. Technology companies have taken advantage of this lack of education to brainwash people into accepting absurd abuses of their rights."
Source : The Free Software movement is Barking up the wrong tree
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday December 27 2017, @09:13PM
No. The licence determines if and how you may distribute the code. It grants additional rights that you wouldn't otherwise have because of copyright (which is still upheld, it doesn't just evaporate).
> thus the license is what one uses to make that determination. The reason the license was chosen makes no difference whatsoever.
That's correct.
> Linus only cares about GPL2 code
The bottom line is that he doesn't care about GPL3, plus the impossibility to change stone soup this far down the line anyway.
> his take is that he wants to get changes back
He *doesn't* particularly want to get changes back. Idiots can change shit all they want, and *he doesn't want it*. He only wants well-maintained working code back. (I'm an ex kernel dev.)
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