+ 2014-02-11 Tue 00:05, Hugo Roy <[email protected]>: > > > I think it's fair to assume that contributing to proprietary > > > software (and *not* to free software) is not valuable to software > > > freedom. > > > > Well, that stands to question here. Qt is arguably both proprietary *and* > > free > > software. Your sentence is certainly true for the general case, but Qt is a > > corner case. Does the (additional) contribution to proprietary software > > *weaken* the value of the contribution to the free software? > > My personal opinion here is that a business model built around > making money with proprietary software, and contributing to that > business model, is not really valuable to software freedom indeed.
Just to avoid confusion, I'm speaking generally here. I do not care about the particular Qt situation and I'm not making any judgment on that case. -- Hugo Roy, Free Software Foundation Europe, <www.fsfe.org> Deputy Coordinator, FSFE Legal Team, <www.fsfe.org/legal> Coordinator, FSFE French Team, <www.fsfe.org/fr> Support Free Software, sign up! <https://fsfe.org/support>
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