Is Fedora *really* Free?

[Matthew Saltzman]

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?).

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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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