[Fsfe-uk] Re: Copyright vs. Copyleft

[Lee Braiden]

Alex Hudson wrote:

> Your point is that copylefted free software is preferable to 
> not-copylefted, because there is an extra guarantee that the freedom 
> is protected. It doesn't really affect the freeness of the software, 
> and some free software users (BSD-licence advocates, for example) 
> would argue that it's unnecessary.

No, my point is that free software is "free as in freedom", and that, if 
the freedom to obtain the sourcecode and alter a binary is lost, it is 
no longer free software, in the sense I'm used to.  Open source, maybe.

But yes, you seem to be getting that, from how you refer to BSD.  Can 
you fill me in on why they argue that such guarantees of freedom are 
unnecessary?  I thought BSD-types liked their license too, but just 
didn't like the extra restrictions of copyleft.

- Lee.