Re: tunefl and other web services

[Tim Roberts]

Graham Percival wrote:
>
> Commercial services are ok, but non-Free software is not.  The GNU
> coding standards are quite clear on this:
>
> "A GNU program should not recommend, promote, or grant legitimacy
> to the use of any non-free program. Proprietary software is a
> social and ethical problem, and our aim is to put an end to that
> problem."
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/References.html

The phrase "should not" merely means that one must feel guilty when
doing so.  It is not a prohibition.

In other words, that's a philosophical statement, not a legal statement.

-- 
Tim Roberts, address@hidden
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.