From: Jeremy Henty <onepoint@...>
Date: 2007-10-15T09:20:15+09:00
Subject: Re: MIT vs. Ruby/GPL License

On 2007-10-15, Jon Lambert <jlsysinc@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> From: rhkramer@gmail.com
>>
>> With a license like the MIT (and BSD, and ...) you give away your
>> software (almost) unconditionally...
> ..
>> With a license like the GPL, your software gift is conditional--the
>> receiver of the gift must (to use a phrase that I haven't heard in
>> this context before) "pay it forward".
>
> Which one gives the user more freedom, the unconditional or
> conditional grant?

The GPL gives the *user* *complete* freedom.  It restricts *other*
activities, such as distributing a derived work, but it imposes no
restrictions on simply using the software.

Regards, 

Jeremy Henty