Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Gitlab and Gitorious (was Re: support me)

[Miles Fidelman]

Richard Stallman wrote:
> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
> Copyleft is not a restriction.  It is a defense against restrictions
> imposed by middlemen on the users.

To be fair, or more accurately, to pick a nit, any license terms that 
include the terms "must" or "may not" are, by definition, restrictions - 
in the case of Copyleft, restrictions on what middlemen can do.  (Not 
that I disagree with those restrictions, mind you.)

Cheers,

Miles Fidelman

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