On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 08:37 -0400, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > > I'm puzzled - you say it is FUD; but then you seem to agree with him. > > How is it FUD? > > The implication is that the OSI is not interested in software freedom > because it disagrees with the FSF on one corner-case. This is > historically and factually inaccurate. > > This "corner case" is clear cut, the NASA Open Source agreement > requires any contribution to be "original", one cannot take bits and > bobs from another project and incopreate it into a NASA Open Source > licensed project.
The GNU GPL also prevents some free software to be used. > This is clearly a non-free license, since it violates freedom 3, "the > freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements (and > modified versions in general) to the public, so that the whole > community benefits.". No, while I tend to agree with the FSF views, this is clearly just political agenda. The NASA license is *bad* but it is clearly *free software*, you have all the freedoms you have with the GPL, it's just that the compatibility list is an empty set. > The OSI disagrees with this freedom, and have decided to list a > license that is not a free software license amongst its approved > licenses. No the OSI has been realistic this time. The OSI was wrong in accepting the original Apple License for example, but the NASA license is just stupid, but yet a free software license. If I were OSI I wouldn't have approved it on political grounds (it's useless as it creates a niche of free software that cannot be shared with other projects), but certainly not under the definition of free software. > I fail to see what is historically inaccureate, or factually > incorrect. The OSI has listed, and lists licenses that do not adher > to the four freedoms of software, the only conclusion is that they do > not care about software freedom. You are just being unreasonably zealot, but that's as usual. It's a pity that people have to keep doing damage control every time you write in public tho... Simo. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
