Is Fedora *really* Free?

Scott van Looy scott at ethosuk.org.uk
Thu Oct 19 14:46:24 UTC 2006


Today Les Mikesell did spake thusly:

> On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 14:32 +0100, Steve Searle wrote:
>
>>> Yet much less so than what GPL fanatics do to the word 'free'
>>> to make it mean restricted...
>>
>> As in "You are free to do what you like with the code except add
>> restrictions to its use"?
>
> As in "you can't redistribute this combined with anyone else's
> work that has different ideas".  That is "my restrictions are
> the only reasonable ones possible...".

Stops people taking what someone else wrote, adding a few lines and then 
charging for it, doesn't it?

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