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Re: Dissatisfied w/Debian? Make something 'pure'.



On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 05:16:41PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 12:06:58AM -0500, David Starner wrote:
> > of "free" from time to time - note the number of packages that move from 
> > free to non-free when someone takes another look at the license. Remember that
> 
> That just means the license was misinterpreted at some stage;
> the definition of free (ie the DFSG) is constant.

In theory the defintion of free is constant - in practice it's variable.
I'd say about the same for RMS's opinion on free.

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David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
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a questionable death scene leaving no corpse? Face it, we'll never
see her again." - Sluggy Freelance



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