[pdf-devel] Re: about the licence

[Yavor Doganov]

Martin Schröder wrote:
> 
> It's not an incentive; it forces all consumers of GNUpdf to release
> their code under the GPL.

Using the word "consumers" here shows a radically different point of
view, a way of thinking that I personally strongly disagree with.  In
the free software movement, we call these entities "users", and they
all should have equal rights.

Deciding to license a particular software under the GPL doesn't force
you to do anything, as it is entirely *your* choice whether to use the
software or not.  So "incentive" is a perfectly valid word in this
situation, although I'm not a native speaker (and I'm not going to
argue about linguistic issues).