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burlingk@×××××××××.mil escribió: |
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>> -----Original Message----- |
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>> From: Abraham Marín Pérez [mailto:tecnic5@××××××××.com] |
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>> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 7:43 PM |
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>> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3?? |
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>> burlingk@×××××××××.mil escribió: |
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>>>> -----Original Message----- |
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>>>> From: lunarcrisis@×××××.com [mailto:lunarcrisis@×××××.com] On |
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>>>> Behalf Of Henk Boom |
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>>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 11:08 AM |
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>>>> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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>>>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3?? |
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>>> The four freedoms: |
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>>> Freedom 0: The freedom to run a program for any purpose. |
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>> Freedom 1: To |
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>>> study the way a program works, and adapt it to your needs. |
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>> Freedom 2: |
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>>> To redistribute copies so that you can help your neighbors. |
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>> Freedom 3: |
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>>> Improve the program, and release your improvements to |
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>>> the public, so that the whole community benefits. |
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>>> For freedom 1 and 3 to work, the code must be open. |
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>>> Freedom 1 is just as important as the other three. Freedom one is |
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>>> almost eliminated in GPLv3. Freedom One is the freedom that was |
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>>> most whole heartedly expressed in the original manifesto. |
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>>> Freedom 3 is the one that GPLv3 is making most important |
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>> now. It does |
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>>> so to the detriment of the other three. |
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>> I'm not very into licenses and hence my question may seem evident (or |
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>> even stupid) but still... does not Freedom 3 imply Freedom 1? I mean, |
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>> how can you improve a program without being able to study it? |
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> :) |
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> The freedoms were listed before any license was written. |
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> They were the credo that the GNU foundation was founded upon. |
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> They were still the credo when the name became the Free Software Foundation. |
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> ^_^ |
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> Now the direction of the organization has apparently changed. |
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> They are more interested in slowing down the competition than |
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> helping the community. When they first started, the competition |
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> was still thought of as a part of the community. :/ |
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> I worry. |
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Ok, so good intentions are falling apart and being substituted by |
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mercantile minds, but still I can't see how freedom one can be |
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threatened while enhancing freedom three, it just seems contradictory to me. |
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