Re: “GNU software is distributed under the terms of [copyleft] licenses”

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

"Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@systemhalted.org> skribis:

> On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 5:03 PM Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 2019-10-26 at 02:35 +0300, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:
>> > 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].
>>
>> I agree. It would say something like "We prefer to distribute under the
>> terms of these licenses."

Oh yes, you’re right.

>> This is also partly why I would recommend trying to merge points 1
>> (freedom), 2 (uphold freedom) and 4 (beyond software freedom). That
>> makes it easier to explain what compromises we do and do not make to
>> uphold user freedom.
>
> That sounds like a good compromise.

Sure, works for me!

Ludo’.