&gt; your code is now used to take away users freedom<p>No it&#x27;s not. My code is still available to any who want it.<p>Other modifications made to my code may not be free, but that isn&#x27;t my code, so your statement is incorrect.<p>Sounds like you&#x27;re contorting the perspective.<p>What&#x27;s ridiculous is that you&#x27;re presupposing that I don&#x27;t care about &quot;perpetual freedom.&quot; But I do---that&#x27;s why I released the code into the public domain.<p>What you seem to be talking about is something quite a bit different. I guess it&#x27;s, &quot;perpetual freedom of my code and any other modifications distributed by others.&quot;<p>But that doesn&#x27;t sound as good, now does it? Your phrasing makes it look like I&#x27;m so ogre, which is why it&#x27;s ridiculous and why it&#x27;s misleading. Your phrasing is also convenient to certain philosophical leanings among programmers, which potentially makes it disingenuous.