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

[Rui Miguel Seabra]

On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 19:54, MJ Ray wrote:
> 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)

That was by accident, I intended to put it in adjacent to 4.6! :|

>  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?

I think I have misinterpreted it, my bad.

Rui
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