Re:read Karl Popper (Score 1)

Hi; you ask: "So is it ethical, in this case, to restrict their freedom to restrict their own freedom? Or is that nanny statism? It's a bit of a quandry, really." Its a very good question. So good, in fact, that we wrote a paper on it :). Here is a link. We'd love to get comments from folks. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html#Thir dPartyIdeas (Its the last paper on that list - titled "A Comparative Ethical Assessment of Free Software Licensing Schemes") We consider precisely the question you ask above, comparing the GPL to BSD/MIT style licenses.