Author: Kunnar Klauks
Date: 05:58:41 08/03/05
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On August 03, 2005 at 08:20:43, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >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. > English is not my native language, but isnt it so that free means in English both freedom and no cost? In my native language these 2 things have different words. >GPL software cannot reasonably be called free anyway - it has many restrictions. Maybe these restrictions are created to protect freedom?
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