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  Re: Licensing, Ethics, Open Source and Philosophy  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 18 Jul 2008 11:15:04
Message: <4880b378$1@news.povray.org>
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:59:24 -0400, Warp wrote:

> Nicolas George <nicolas$george@salle-s.org> wrote:
>> "You can access the current source code using Perforce. Please note
>> that Perforce is free/gratis but not free/libre; a probable change for
>> Subversion is scheduled for after the release of the final 3.7
>> version."
> 
>   I'm not convinced it's the pov-teams duty to start nitpicking on
> terminology and specifying whether some software conforms to whatever
> the FSF wants it to mean.
> 
>   I think "perforce is cost-free" is more than enough, without the need
>   to
> go into terminology nor politics.

I would actually agree with this.  Just say the client is available at no 
cost and that's the solution that the team has decided to use.  I don't 
see a need to justify the choice of toolset.

Jim


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