On 12/03/2012 03:59 PM, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
TL;DR: Fontana, please accept the merge request at https://gitorious.org/copyleft-next/copyleft-next/merge_requests/25 to restore the "install and run" wording until such time as community consensus is reached regarding a compromise of which users should actually get the freedom to install modified versions.
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I'm sorry to see that Richard has removed it at Luis' behest without any discussion about the issue.
I didn't remove it at Luis's behest - he never suggested that it be removed (AFAICR). I'd be happy to have further discussion about the issue.
I've now taken out "install and run" from the definition of Corresponding Source.
The right to install and run modified versions is *the* essential freedom that copyleft must now defend, especially with embedded systems.
GPLv3 made compromises of various sorts of this regard. However, it's a mistake for copyleft-next to "start" the negotiation point as "users have no freedom to install and run modified versions".
For the basic version of copyleft-next, I want users to have the same freedom to install and run that they have under GPLv2. That's why I had the (now-deleted) "dl-supp" file. (Yes, I realize there isn't universal agreement on the scope of such freedom, so let us suppose that there is a majority view on what that means.)
Therefore, I've submitted a merge request to revert this change. Please accept it. If Luis and those who oppose the freedom to install and run modified versions want to propose a compromise position -- as was done by the same powers-that-be during GPLv3 -- they should propose a compromise that allows the freedom to install modified versions some but not all of the time, as GPLv3 does. Then we can consider the compromise as a community.
I don't really want copyleft-next to be about 'negotiations' and 'compromises'.
Please accept my merge request to revert the change that was made without real discussion, and then let Luis propose a patch for a compromise.
I agree that there wasn't as much discussion about this as there could have been. I intend to follow up with some further thoughts on why I made the 'install and run' deletion.
- RF