On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 12:35 AM, Rob Myers <rob@robmyers.org> wrote:
Both restore rights that copyright otherwise restricts.
No. Copyright exists automatically in default state of "all rights reserved". 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_tre... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_copyright https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-copyright Yarr!