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  Re: Licensing, Ethics, Open Source and Philosophy  
From: Nicolas George
Date: 15 Jul 2008 04:31:29
Message: <487c6061$1@news.povray.org>
Nicolas Alvarez  wrote in message <487c1ece@news.povray.org>:
> You just have to comply with the rules for modification and redistribution,
> which happen not to match FSF's Free Software definition, or Debian Free
> Software Guidelines, or whatever.

If you intend to convince people here, you need to put the emphasis on the
"whatever", because a lot of people here are allergic to the FSF.

You may want to emphasize, for example, that the most noise about software
freedom nowadays come from the BSD people, who claim that the GPL is not
Free. Obviously, they are not speaking about charging money.


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