Re: "Why Debian NetBSD"
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 03:12:30PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote:
> >>>>> "Jeremy" == Jeremy C Reed <reed@wcug.wwu.edu> writes:
>
> Jeremy> It all depends on your (or RMS's) personal definition of
> Jeremy> "freedom". Definitely BSD websites promote free software
> Jeremy> -- in fact, they encourage the use of their code in
> Jeremy> proprietary, closed-source applications and devices. (When
> Jeremy> your force freedom on someone are they free?.)
>
> Fortunately we are Debian and we have a definition of free that those
> of us who are part of the project accepted when we joined. Under this
> definition both the GPL and the BSD license are free. Can we head off
> the flamewar about whether GPL is free, because in the Debian context
> it is defined (by name) to be free. Also, Debian does not define a
> comparison operator on freedom; asking what license is more free than
> another is not worth the bandwith it takes provided they are both
> free.
That was very well stated. I would like to see the political arguements about
licenses taken off-list. There are plenty of other forums for it.
--Nathan
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