On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 06:59:26PM +0100, Alex Hudson wrote: > Also, I would say although the AFFS is an associate of the FSFE - and > hence, obviously, pro-FSF :) - I would hope BSD supporters could find a > home with AFFS too. As an example, one of the problems with the Govt. > "open source" policy is that it doesn't seem to recognise licences like > the BSD licence. I'm guessing it's probably not a natural home, though, > but I guess that would depend on whether or not a "purist BSD" supporter > would recognise the GPL as a free software licence; I know some don't.
I'm not a "purist BSD supporter" (my own software is released under the Zlib licence), but I was initially dubious about being associated with the FSF(E). I would prefer it is there were a separate AFFS list, because I think a lot of non- and anti-GPL FLOSS people will be put off by something that seems to be (and is in name) for FSF supporters, I do regard the GPL as non-free (except as in beer). I don't hold that against it, though, I'm quite happy to work with other licences which the FSF regards as non-free (the Zlib licence is compatible with all of them) so the GPL is just another one. I'm not a 'purist' anything... All of my 'local' aliases and mail folders are called AFFS, not FSFE, and that is deliberate (and means that I can easily switch lists). Chris C _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
