Defining Free Software Business

MJ Ray mjr at phonecoop.coop
Tue Jun 27 13:38:51 UTC 2006


"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams at gnu.org>
>    The Debian Project is even less of a proprietary software vendor
>    than Linux Magazine, who published Georg's Brave GNU World in a
                                                                ^^^^
>    friendly way IIRC, so some FSFers must have thought them worthy of
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>    assistance.
> 
> Brave GNU world is licensed under a free license that allows
> republication.  Comparing a project and a magazine is beyond absurd.

Please note the highlighted part above.

> Are you going to imply that if Microsoft publishes a copy of the GNU
> Manifesto, then the "FSFers" must have thought them worthy of
> assistance?

If done in the same way, with recommendation at the top of a page
like http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/bgw/bgw.en.html
 'Started in January 1999, the Brave GNU World is a monthly
  column which has since then been released in nine languages[*]
  on the web and printed in the German "Linux-Magazin," the
  "Linux Magazine" U.K., "Microsoftware" (a large computer
  magazine in Korea) and the "Linux-Magazine" in France.'
then I would, yes.

Hope that explains,
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