[Gambas-user] Free as in freedom

[Martin]

In my opinion, software developers should not restrict the freedoms of 
others, that is where the "open" concept comes in, but then to prevent 
someone from taking over the software and "closing" it, the concept of 
"free" (GPL) appears, which ensures that the software and all its 
derivatives are always free.
Open software does not ensure your freedom whereas free software (GPL) does.
If, for example, you develop a program for a few years and license it 
with BSD and then if a company takes the code and improves it and 
distributes the binary program, you will never see those improvements 
because the company is not obliged to publish the improved source code.
On the other hand, if you use GPL everything that a company (or others 
developpers) improves on a free code and distributes the binary, it is 
legally obliged to distribute the source code also with the same freedoms.

Regards

Martín

El 19/2/21 a las 11:19, Gianluigi escribió:
>
>
> Il giorno ven 19 feb 2021 alle ore 11:01 Martin 
> <mbelmonte at belmotek.net <mailto:mbelmonte at belmotek.net>> ha scritto:
>
>     I believe that software is the result of a collective creation,
>     but even the lonely programmer (most of us), to learn, needs to
>     study other programs, so it could be said that there is no such
>     thing as an isolated programmer. Maybe Alan Turing?
>
>     Free software is a world heritage site, it is like cooking
>     recipes, fire, agriculture, the wheel or the library of Alexandria.
>
>     That the software is free as in freedom makes the world better, in
>     Spanish there are two different words for what is free as in
>     freedom (LIBRE) and what is free as open bar (GRATIS), but in
>     English it is a little bit confusing.
>
>     If we base our business model on restricting the freedom of
>     others, I think we would be making a mistake, I think we would be
>     being selfish.
>
>     If we start talking only about the OPENING of free software and
>     not about FREEDOM, I think that again we are making another mistake.
>
>     I say thanks to Benoit and all those who made and make GAMBAS
>     possible and offer it to everyone to use it and also to study it
>     (it is not a minor data) and modify it.
>
>     I say tanks to all that share your own creations as Software LIBRE
>     it is very important.
>
>
> This distinction also exists in English, open and free, and seems that 
> it is one man of this lang that created the GPL.
>
> If you come to my pastry shop to buy an GPL cake, in addition to the 
> cake, you also get the recipe.
>
> If you buy the cake that the manufacturer gave me free, I only sell 
> you the cake.
>
> On the basic moral concepts I think agree with you.
>
> Regards
> Gianluigi
>
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