Picking a license

[Ben Finney]

Patrick Maupin <pmaupin at gmail.com> writes:

> On May 7, 5:33 pm, Ben Finney <ben+pyt... at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> > Since no-one is forcing anyone to take any of the actions permitted
> > in the license, and since those actions would not otherwise be
> > permitted under copyright law, it's both false and misleading to
> > refer to them as “forced”.
>
> Again, the force is applied once you choose to do a particular thing
> with the software

And again, that would be the case with or without the specific free
software license, so it's false and misleading to say the license forces
anything. The actions that are prohibited are prohibited by copyright
law, not by the license.

I think we're done here.

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