ATTN: Brasilian state aproves "opensource" law

Bernhard Reiter bernhard at intevation.de
Mon Dec 9 13:40:26 UTC 2002


On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 12:56:45AM +0100, Niall Douglas wrote:
> On 6 Dec 2002 at 23:14, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> 
> > So that's a restriction to *stop*you* from restricting the 4 freedoms
> > on Free Software for some users.
> 
> Quite, and therefore not completely libre. Please - I don't care one 
> way or another except that government sponsored projects should be 
> BSD licence as they came from public money. I'm simply saying how 
> others can see things.

The GNU GPL is the strongest protection for Free Softwae we have.
Thus it is completely libre/free.

Its like with human rights, you are saying: 
Being allowed to own slaves makes a society more free.
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