@icedquinn @PurpCat @Lyx @mattskala @sun sure. but at the same time the value of freedom rings true through the GPL. If for example the government of The United States or something requires spyware as a condition of running a computer, the GPL can explicitly deal with this situation in some way. It's like the constitution in that way - even if the US government ignores the constitution, the constitution is still there to charge them with. Even if the SCOTUS decides to scrap the whole thing it's still there waiting to be picked up and implemented later. The spirit of freedom will never be truly extinguished until the last copy of the GPL is forgotten. We are not there yet.

And guns aren't the only thing we have to fight governments with. Many governments including the US government use free software and the courts have approved it as a valid license. or contract? How is that VMWare lawsuit or whatever on that point going? I don't even know. Either way our code is helping increase the level of freedom and can continue to do so *if we value it*