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Re: [Steve Lidie <Stephen.O.Lidie@Lehigh.EDU>] Re: xodometer licensing



On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:

>John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu>:
>
>> >Well, I don't think it's a free license for similar reasons as RMS.
>> >Mostly because it's very vauge in places, and references things that
>> >it really shouldn't in others.  Examples:
>>
>> I doubt it.  RMS's REAL reason is that it isn't his GPL.  Look at how many
>> unequivocally free licenses fall under his definition of non-free.  Hell
>> the most free license in existence, the original BSD "do whatever you
>> want, just don't bother us or plagiarize" license was considered by RMS to
>> be non-free.
>
>When? Where?

About the time that Debian was still part of the FSF...

>Edmund
>

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John Galt (galt@inconnu.isu.edu)



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