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On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:55:13 -0400 |
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Richard Stallman <rms@×××.org> wrote: |
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<snip> |
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That criterion is not quite enough to achieve the stated goal, because |
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Licenses approved by the OSI are not necessarily Free Software |
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licenses. As a result, this criterion allows Gentoo to include, and |
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even depend on, programs that are not free software. (See |
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http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/apsl.html for an example.) |
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</snip> |
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I agree on that |
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Would you please consider changing your criterion to refer to both the |
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OSI and the FSF, so that licenses must qualify as both free software |
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and open source? |
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It's a small change that might satisfy not just you but many others active in the community. |
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If I can vote I vote yes for that change to happend. |
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<snip> |
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(If you would call the system Gentoo GNU/Linux, that would help us |
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also. See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html.) |
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</snip> |
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This isn't only more correct, it actually looks better IMHO :) |
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My 10 cents of worth... |
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Christian Axelsson |
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smiler@××××××××××.nu |
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