Re: An April 1 joke? Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add systemd.

[Martin Castillo]

Hi,

> And the same happens again: He does not condemn systemd, calling it Free
> Software due to the GPL license. In my opinion systemd is violating one of 
> the 4
> freeedoms of GPL: Freedom 1 (as well as the *NIX and KISS philosophy)
>       * The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it
>         does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the
>         source code is a precondition for this.


Freedom 1 gives you the right to change the software for yourself, but
not the right to force others to change their version.

> It's really time for a re-definition of Free Software, not only basing such
> definitions solely on the license at hand. It is also a matter of freedoms of
> the users of software. Especially in view of that most Free Software nowadays 
> is
> developed by commercial players, having their own agenda, actively alienating
> their users (and non-paid, spare time developers).
> 

Do you mean software, where the users can dictate the author what should
be changed/made in its software?

Martin

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