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Paul Smith |
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Re: (Really) Free Software future Was: Re: Proposal to remove the off-topic, ... |
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Mon, 14 Oct 2019 12:13:11 -0400 |
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On Mon, 2019-10-14 at 12:07 +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> Perhaps we should divide free software into two groups: 1) Really
> free software where Freedom 1 applies and 2) not-so-free software
> where Freedom 1 does no longer applies.
>
> Here gnome and systemd are in the second kind.
Both GNOME and systemd are fully free software that support all four
freedoms, including freedom 1.
> Especially systemd, even if GPLed, is currently swallowing most of
> free software excluding large groups of people to make contributions.
Neither excluding upstream contributions nor "swallowing" other free
software projects violate any of the four freedoms.
As long as you are able to run the program, access the source code,
modify the source code as you like, and distribute both the original
and your modifications to others, then your freedoms are preserved.
- Re: Proposal to remove the off-topic, not free software related thoughtcrime accusations from the Guix project pages on GNU.ORG websitew, (continued)
- Re: Proposal to remove the off-topic, not free software related thoughtcrime accusations from the Guix project pages on GNU.ORG websitew, Alexandre François Garreau, 2019/10/13
- Re: Proposal to remove the off-topic, not free software related thoughtcrime accusations from the Guix project pages on GNU.ORG websitew, František Kučera, 2019/10/14
- Reminder to keep posts on topic, Ricardo Wurmus, 2019/10/14
- Re: Reminder to keep posts on topic, Mikhail Kryshen, 2019/10/14
- Re: Reminder to keep posts on topic, Ricardo Wurmus, 2019/10/14
Re: Proposal to remove the off-topic, not free software related thoughtcrime accusations from the Guix project pages on GNU.ORG websitew, ng0, 2019/10/10
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- (Really) Free Software future Was: Re: Proposal to remove the off-topic, ..., Svante Signell, 2019/10/14
- Re: (Really) Free Software future Was: Re: Proposal to remove the off-topic, ..., Jesse Gibbons, 2019/10/14
- Re: (Really) Free Software future Was: Re: Proposal to remove the off-topic, ...,
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- Re: (Really) Free Software future, Svante Signell, 2019/10/14
- Re: (Really) Free Software future, Jesse Gibbons, 2019/10/14
- Re: (Really) Free Software future, Paul Smith, 2019/10/14
- Re: (Really) Free Software future, Alexander Vdolainen, 2019/10/14
- Re: (Really) Free Software future, Jesse Gibbons, 2019/10/14
- Re: (Really) Free Software future, Alexander Vdolainen, 2019/10/14
- Re: (Really) Free Software future, marinus.savoritias, 2019/10/14
- Re: (Really) Free Software future, Stefan Huchler, 2019/10/14
- Re: (Really) Free Software future in the light of systemd, Dmitry Alexandrov, 2019/10/19
Re: (Really) Free Software future, Paul Smith, 2019/10/14