On May 10, 2008, at 11:40 AM, Mark Rages wrote:
> Can you explain how the GPL does not allow you to change
> the software to suit your needs?

"My needs include being able to keep my modifications to the open  
source material proprietary when I distribute the software."  "I need  
to keep distribution difficulties in check, and cannot afford to  
distribute my embedded product in a form where it can be re-built  
with modified versions of the open-source libraries that it uses."

GPL advocates may claim that these are not VALID needs, or argue  
about the difficulty of meeting them within GPL, but it tends to get  
my hackles up whenever someone else is ready to tell me what *I* need.

And I don't want FSF to be able to define what "open source" means,  
any more than I want RIAA to define what "fair use" means...

BillW

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