Is Fedora *really* Free?

[Scott van Looy]

Today Matthew Saltzman did spake thusly:

> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Scott van Looy wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> Stops many other less nefarious, more civic-minded activites too.
>
> But there was a long, involved flamefest here not that long ago, so no need 
> to rehash it again (please?).

OK, sorry. I'm new here. I just wanted to know how the interwebnet works 
=D

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