On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 11:52:58AM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > Apart from that a lot ofthings come from GNU and they they deserve > > credit, there is also another reason. It's spreading the words of > > freedom. The GNU website talks about freedom and why software should be > > free. I don't see this on the big "Linux" websites nor do I see it on > > the *BSD websites (I don't know all those website very well, so > > correct me if I'm wrong). > > It all depends on your (or RMS's) personal definition of "freedom". > Definitely BSD websites promote free software -- in fact, they encourage > the use of their code in proprietary, closed-source applications and > devices. (When your force freedom on someone are they free?.)
I'm not going to argue here whether you have to copyleft your software or not. I was talking about the philosophical side of free software. I haven't seen pages like http://www.gnu.org/philosophy on other sites. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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