On "A matter of privacy?"

Frank Heckenbach frank at g-n-u.de
Sat May 19 11:50:39 UTC 2001


Georg C. F. Greve wrote:

> http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/main/0%2c10228%2c2760711%2c00.html
>
> But the real point is the question of privacy.
> 
> The Free Software definition says that you have the freedom to pass
> something along. But that (of course) also includes the freedom to not
> pass it along if you don't want to.

Nice to see that it's the FSF to care about the issue of privacy,
while OSI doesn't -- whereas critics have often misrepresented the
GPL as requiring any changes to be published.

Frank

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