On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 12:23:19PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: [cut]
> > Which comes around to the original question about free software: Is > SystemD really free software? > > Obviously, by the FSF definition of free software and the current > definition of open source, yes it is. By the letter of the law, yes it > is. Spirit of the law? I'm not so sure. > You can call a dog "donkey" if you like, but that dog will not become a donkey just because you call it like that. And the same dog will not turn into a monkey just because you call it "monkey". I personally find the whole discussion about systemd "not being proper free software" rather pointless. There is plenty of software that people install and use daily in their free-software distros which is far worse than systemd in terms of code quality, maintainability, obfuscation. The list is just too long. And nobody says that those software are less free just because their development model sucks. Or because their developers managed to have it adopted far and wide. I understand the problem Steve is pointing out, but continuing to say that the problem is about being or not being free software is not just useless, but utterly incorrect. My2Cents KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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