Comments on: Freedom 4 – The Freedom to claim others’ work as your own http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/geek/blogging/freedom-4-the-freedom-to-claim-others-work-as-your-own Austin web designer - Adam Freetly Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:47:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Don'tcha think? « SunBurntKamel http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/geek/blogging/freedom-4-the-freedom-to-claim-others-work-as-your-own/comment-page-1#comment-12657 Don'tcha think? « SunBurntKamel Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:06:49 +0000 http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/asides/freedom-4-the-freedom-to-claim-others-work-as-your-own#comment-12657 [...] anyone else find this terribly ironic? especially given the problem of his microformats not being an open standard, i find it odd that chris wouldn’t hesitate to follow the party [...]

]]> By: Mark http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/geek/blogging/freedom-4-the-freedom-to-claim-others-work-as-your-own/comment-page-1#comment-12654 Mark Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:21:25 +0000 http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/asides/freedom-4-the-freedom-to-claim-others-work-as-your-own#comment-12654 I find a lot - if not most - of the GPL to be something that escapes me. Yet to some - not you adam - it seems to be a religion. And anything with zealots in will have problems.. I find a lot – if not most – of the GPL to be something that escapes me. Yet to some – not you adam – it seems to be a religion. And anything with zealots in will have problems..

]]> By: adam http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/geek/blogging/freedom-4-the-freedom-to-claim-others-work-as-your-own/comment-page-1#comment-12656 adam Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:46:13 +0000 http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/asides/freedom-4-the-freedom-to-claim-others-work-as-your-own#comment-12656 that was probably overkill on my part. but the highlighting of anaconda is exactly right. while he's free to obfuscate the link, he's not free to tell anyone they can't remove it. doing so violates the letter and the spirit of the GPL. the problem is in themes being <em>almost</em> necessarily GPL. that was probably overkill on my part. but the highlighting of anaconda is exactly right. while he’s free to obfuscate the link, he’s not free to tell anyone they can’t remove it. doing so violates the letter and the spirit of the GPL.

the problem is in themes being almost necessarily GPL.

]]> By: Mark http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/geek/blogging/freedom-4-the-freedom-to-claim-others-work-as-your-own/comment-page-1#comment-12655 Mark Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:37:02 +0000 http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/asides/freedom-4-the-freedom-to-claim-others-work-as-your-own#comment-12655 I've not been accused of pointy-headedness before. What the GPL does and does not do is of little matter to me. I have consistently left that for others to discuss. When I highlighted Anaconda, I did so because the author of that theme was proclaiming it to be GPL and at the same time making it clearly NOT GPL. I was calling him for what he was doing in the name of the GPL. He was abusing it. He was duping people out of money. He was conning others. Lying, call it whatever. He was not innocently making a mistake. I'm all for credit where it is due. I’ve not been accused of pointy-headedness before.

What the GPL does and does not do is of little matter to me. I have consistently left that for others to discuss. When I highlighted Anaconda, I did so because the author of that theme was proclaiming it to be GPL and at the same time making it clearly NOT GPL. I was calling him for what he was doing in the name of the GPL. He was abusing it. He was duping people out of money. He was conning others. Lying, call it whatever. He was not innocently making a mistake.

I’m all for credit where it is due.

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