Fedora not "free" enough for GNU?

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Mon Sep 8 10:32:42 UTC 2008


Rahul Sundaram wrote:

>
> It is [ the claim that gnu.org does not acknowledge any license but
> the GPL as being "truly free" ] that is disconnected to reality.
>
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#SoftwareLicenses
> http://lwn.net/2001/0301/a/rms-ov-license.php3
>
> There are many valid criticisms against FSF but this often repeated one
> has never been among them.

Indeed.  The real wonder is that this calumny is repeated again and
again, corrected every time, but it simply will not die.  I do not
know why this nonsense is so persistent.

Andrew.




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