This is probably what made me double-take the most.<p>I don&#x27;t understand why Guardian were denied permission to use the code. Sure, OWS aren&#x27;t under any obligation to, but it doesn&#x27;t really feel like it&#x27;s in the spirit of openness at all.<p>The code might be &#x27;open source&#x27;, but it&#x27;s neither free as in user freedom or beer, unless you&#x27;re giving Facebook or Google your metadata now.<p>If the code can&#x27;t be reused, it&#x27;s pretty hard for users to move to something else. Unless that something else is totally starting over again from scratch.<p>It just feels weird that because of the Apple situation, in this case the GPL appears to work directly against user freedom.<p>I think a lot of people have been taken by surprise by that, to discover the platform is not what they thought it was.