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Subject: Re: define word FREE

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 05:20:43 08/03/05

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On August 03, 2005 at 08:16:56, Kunnar Klauks wrote:

>Pro Deo is free as free beer not free as free speech. Some people make
>difference here. Fruit is open source program released with GPL licence. Pro Deo
>is AFAIK free download but closed source.
>
>My point is that Pro Deo is actually not Free Software.

Pro Deo is free software.

The fact that some political organisation (FSF) tried to change the meaning of a
wellunderstood word doesn't change that.

GPL software cannot reasonably be called free anyway - it has many restrictions.

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GCP



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