[Fwd: EDRI-gram - Number 6, 9 April 2003]

MJ Ray markj at cloaked.freeserve.co.uk
Fri Apr 11 19:54:32 UTC 2003


Rui Miguel Seabra <rms at 1407.org> wrote:
>> 4.6. Modification and free distribution of changes as well as of the
>>       newly designed software under the same conditions as those of
>>       the original.
> 
> Then, it seems your are effectively restricting the Free Software
> definition to Copyleft Free Software (not bad per se, but it would
> exclude a lot of Free Software, which is bad!).

No.  The lead-in (that you snipped) says "provides the user the following
possibilities" which other free software does, although it might not
require it.  If it's an accurate translation, then surely all free
software is allowed.  Why they reinvented the wheel, I don't know.
Maybe local laws?

MJR




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