Z:gnu-www-ja-moglen-harvard-speech-2004--5b4e8f-Those of us who believe in the/en

Those of us who believe in the GNU GPL as a particularly valuable license to use believe in that because we think that there are other licenses which too weakly protect the commons and which are more amenable to a form of appropriation that might be ultimately destructive &mdash; this is our concern with the freedoms presented, for example, by the BSD license &mdash; we are concerned that though the freedoms in the short term seem even greater, that the longterm result is more readily the one that you are pointing at, market participants who are free to propriatize the content of the commons may succeed in so effectively propriatizing it as to drive the commons out of use altogether, thus, if you like, killing the goose that laid the golden egg in the first place.