---- On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 19:09:55 +0200 Jean Louis wrote ---- >I really don't see strictness there. And I fully understand that >somebody who did not research the definitions of words, and in general >about free software -- that such person may get impression of >strictness. It requires learning.
Many people who don't know what free software and the FSF are see discussions like this one and may get the false impression of strictness. >Finally, the GNU GPL license, the free software world's license, is >according to media most widely used license for software, in the whole >world. If so, then those developers did understand the reasons and >purposes of the free software. Don't forget more permissive, non-copyleft licenses like MIT and Apache have conquered the open source scene (e.g. GitHub) and this trend also affects free software, as a subset of open source software. When developers run away from free software and the GPL because they don't like the free software movement's attitude for whatever reason (read: bad first impression due to TL;DR of fsf.org), we lose man hours and working hands. >The words debian or things like "-debian" are nowhere forbidden to say >or mention. I don't see why a distro cannot put a link to Purism's site on its homepage, even if it's unclear whether or not it is endorsed by the developers. After all, Trisquel's packages mention Ubuntu in many places. >You should put attention on differentiation, and not equation. Not >everything is equal to everything. Debian GNU/Linux as distribution >and movement is not equal to things like "-debian". And putting a link to a site does not mean endorsement. >Further, with the generalization, you do not bring up arguments. First impression matters. The FSF has always been bad in PR matters, IMHO. Again, as I said before: those who don't know the free software movement might see mailing list threads like this one, their length and the arguments discussed, then decide the entire free software movement is a bunch of stubborn people they cannot work with. Dima
