[ale] [OT]Happy July 4

[DJ-Pfulio]

Time to find my copy of the US Constitution for the annual reading this evening.
Tradition here. Doesn't take much time - only about 20 min.


Was just thinking that the GPL isn't enough.  We need licenses which prohibit
capture of personal data without explicit approval of the end-user.

Or has that horse already left the barn? Has the AGPL really helped much with
the issues it was trying to fix?  Would a P-GPL (privacy) addon for the AGPL,
LGPL and GPL be useful?

Or not?


On 07/04/2016 12:52 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> The GPL was a gift.
> 
> Most of the other freedoms were granted by persuasive argument or else the
> grantor decided that continued bloodshed was more costly than capitulation and
> retreat. In the case of the latter, those freedoms were not granted to all, but
> instead held in trust and under the control by the leaders and their heirs and
> assigns of the bloodshed event.
> 
> On Jul 4, 2016 11:51 AM, "Charles Shapiro" <hooterpincher at gmail.com
> <mailto:hooterpincher at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Freedom is not given.  It must be taken.
> 
>     -- CHS
> 
> 
>     On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 6:20 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com
>     <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>         Hear, hear!
> 
>         Cheers to real freedom!
> 
>         On Jul 4, 2016 9:18 AM, "Thompson Freeman" <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
>         <mailto:tfreeman at intel.digichem.net>> wrote:
> 
> 
>             Nobody has stated it yet - Happy Independence Day!
> 
>             Not a traditional sentiment - but I'd also like to note the people
>             who write, maintain, and generally make possible the open
>             source/libre software which doesn't doesn't intrude, snoop, market
>             to, or seek to control the user as so much of modern life does.
>             Thank you to them.
>