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23 Dec 2025 06:47:16 EST (-0500)
  Re: This GPL stuff is getting ridiculous  
From: somebody
Date: 30 Jan 2009 21:11:57
Message: <4983b36d@news.povray.org>
"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
news:49833f8f$1@news.povray.org...
> somebody wrote:
> > That is a matter of opinion, and how you define "free".

> I don't think so. I think there's a very easy metric.
>
> If everything I can do with software A I can also do with software B, but
> there are some things I can do with B that I can't do with A, then B is
more
> free than A.

From your POV. From the POV of all developers taken as a whole, or from the
POV of the original authors, code that's infectuously free may be more free
than code that's currently free.


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