Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
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
Would you mind getting off the list, all you have is arguments. This doesn't help anything, so please, STFU.
