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

[John Pozzi]

Hi Mark, Thank you, John

----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Mark Holmquist <mtraceur@member.fsf.org>
Cc: sytse@gitlab.com, tobias@platen-software.de, dzaporozhets@gitlab.com, libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org
Sent: Sun, 08 Mar 2015 15:42:15 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Gitlab and Gitorious (was Re: support me)

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> Now, you could definitely say that copyleft is not a restriction on the
> end user, but if you're looking to minimize the restrictions for *everyone*,
> including developers of derivatives or applications that use your code,
> then copyleft is not your license.

On the contrary, copyleft minimizes the restrictions on all users of
your code, by preventing middlemen from imposing any restrictions on it
as they redistribute it to additional users.

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