On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 07:25, Guillaume Ponce wrote:
In Portugal, we suggested (and it was accepted by the proposing party):
It is considered Free Software that which has a license of usage that assures it's user, without adicional costs, ....
I think "without additional condition" could have been a better wording than "without additional cost", to prevent sw vendors to make users "register at no cost" as a condition to have freedom.
Indeed. However, we where approached at a pre-release of the draft law. The 'additional cost' is from them and it was intended to avoid someone charging more money for freedoms the software should give right away (but I agree with the additional condition part), but we managed to change it into the direct and explicit definition of Free Software.
Rui