Article: "Fixing linux" - opinions?
Noah Slater
nslater at tumbolia.org
Sat Dec 13 08:38:48 UTC 2008
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 12:39:55AM +0000, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> Yes, you can modify the artwork.
No, you cannot modify the artwork and redistribute.
> What does that have to do with:
> 1. running the program for any purpose
> 2. being able to study and modify it
> 3. being able to distribute copies
> 4. being able to distribute modified copies?
You can't distribute modified copies.
> All of those are allowed, so it is Free Software.
Wrong. Why is Firefox not in Debian main? Because it is non-free.
> You just can't *call* it Firefox, but being able to call the program whatever
> you want is not one of the software freedoms.
You have misunderstood the issue at hand.
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Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater
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