Why should anyone care if you find the single stipulation of gpl(any version) to share with the next guy that which was given to you for free, to be intolerable?
Even gpl3 isn't "encroaching" on anything.
It's terms are no different than any other terms, in that you can either accept or not. No different than if the terms are for money.
If you don't agree to them, then luckily you don't have to use the software. You can write your own software that you don't have to share with anyone. Or you can pay for software that has other terms which are surely much more generous and empowering than gpl3.
The only reason the software exists and is good enough to be valuable in the first place, is because it had those terms. If it had other terms, it wouldn't exist in the first place or be worth stealing for you complain that it doesn't let you steal it. If it had other terms, then most of the people who gave their time to work on it, would not have done so, because it would be a bad investment of their time.
I guess the actual complaint here is "why can't you just give me software like MIT?" Why should anyone care about that complaint? It's like trying to use a freedom argument to criticize the limitation on your freedom to keep slaves.
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Why should anyone care if you find the single stipulation of gpl(any version) to share with the next guy that which was given to you for free, to be intolerable?
Even gpl3 isn't "encroaching" on anything.
It's terms are no different than any other terms, in that you can either accept or not. No different than if the terms are for money.
If you don't agree to them, then luckily you don't have to use the software. You can write your own software that you don't have to share with anyone. Or you can pay for software that has other terms which are surely much more generous and empowering than gpl3.
The only reason the software exists and is good enough to be valuable in the first place, is because it had those terms. If it had other terms, it wouldn't exist in the first place or be worth stealing for you complain that it doesn't let you steal it. If it had other terms, then most of the people who gave their time to work on it, would not have done so, because it would be a bad investment of their time.
I guess the actual complaint here is "why can't you just give me software like MIT?" Why should anyone care about that complaint? It's like trying to use a freedom argument to criticize the limitation on your freedom to keep slaves.