“GNU software is distributed under the terms of [copyleft] licenses” (was: A GNU “social contract”?)

[Dmitry Alexandrov]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> * GNU licenses uphold user freedom
>
> The GNU Project has designed software licenses to ensure developers cannot 
> strip off user freedom from GNU software—“copyleft” licenses.  GNU software 
> is distributed under the terms of these licenses.

Sorry, but thatʼs simply untrue.   Few GNU software packages are under lax, 
non-copyleft licences, namely: ncurses, nana, speex.  And there might be a good 
reason for that [1].

[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.en.html#libraries

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