Re: FS/OSS license: not quite enough of a requirement

[Josh Boyer <jwboyer jdub homelinux org>]

On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 03:07 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On May 13, 2007, "Stephen John Smoogen" <smooge gmail com> wrote:
> 
> > The first image that comes to my mind of 'Freedom' is Captain
> > America...
> 
> Heh.  Point taken ;-)
> 
> Do you think if I used "software freedoms" it would help to bring to
> mind the four freedoms from the Free Software definition?  Maybe
> capitalize them, like Free Software?

Those are better.  "Free Software" to a new person being introduced to
open source will not sound like "free as in freedom" though.  It will
sound like "you don't have to pay for this".  You need to spell it out
at the top and then reference it similarly throughout your document.

I think that in your wiki writeup (you can do a draft under your own
page) you should link to whatever definition you would like.  And in
sections where you reference the "four freedoms" you need to at least
list them once or link to them.

josh