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Subject: Re: define word FREE

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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