Z:gnu-www-ja-rms-nyu-2001-transcript--da9b98-But the other issue I was thin/en

But the other issue I was thinking about was, I wanted to give the community a feeling that it was not a doormat, a feeling that it was not prey to any parasite who would wander along. If you don't use copyleft, you are essentially saying: [speaking meekly] &ldquo;Take my code. Do what you want. I don't say no.&rdquo; So, anybody can come along and say: [speaking very firmly] &ldquo;Ah, I want to make a non-free version of this. I'll just take it.&rdquo; And, then, of course, they probably make some improvements, those non-free versions might appeal to users, and replace the free versions. And then, what have you accomplished? You've only made a donation to some proprietary software project.