Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Paul O'Malley - gnu's not unix - (ompaul at eircom.net):
>>> Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) were not used in this case
>> Ubuntu Free to redistribute definition was not used in this case
>> Free Software Foundation definition was used in this case
>> For those who need a scorecard: "Free Software Foundation definition"
> refers to Stallman's old "four freedoms" essay ("Freedom 0 is the
> freedom to run the software...."). Of late, FSF appears to have started
> referring to that as the "Free Software Definition" -- which is odd
> because the essay's a reasonable philosophical description of a concept
> but not really specific enough to be useful for classifying licences.
>> Related discussion: http://spot.livejournal.com/303000.html>> (/me stops to admire the recent terminology flamebait, walks on.)
>dude that is really crazy trying to use that as flame bait cos as soon
as the gnewsense people were informed about spot's nice way of bug
reporting ... blogging how good a community member is that .. it went
the way of the dodo
in reply to his many replies, one day we will be right and he will still
be tainted :-P
(go ahead rick explain why tainting is bad for who need to know, no one
is watching /me rofl)
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