Picking a license

[Ed Keith]

--- On Fri, 5/14/10, Tobiah <toby at rcsreg.com> wrote:

> From: Tobiah <toby at rcsreg.com>
> Subject: Re: Picking a license
> To: python-list at python.org
> Date: Friday, May 14, 2010, 11:59 AM
> 
> > Assertion II:
> >    If person A is free do perform an action
> person B is not free to
> >    perform then person A is free to do more
> than person B.
> 
> This does not hold water.  Let's say there are only 10
> activities
> available.  Person A can do number 1 and person B can
> not.  Person
> B can do activities 2 through 10, while person A can
> not.  Therefore,
> Person A is indeed free to perform an action that person B
> is not
> free to perform, but person a is *not* free to do more than
> person B.

THat argument is valid if and only if the rights of B are not a strict subset of the rights of A. As far as I can tell, the rights granted by the GPL are a strict subset of the right granted by the Boost license. So your argument does not work.

   -EdK

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