On Sat, 2019-10-26 at 02:35 +0300, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote: > Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > > * GNU licenses uphold user freedom > > > > The GNU Project has designed software licenses to ensure developers > > cannot strip off user freedom from GNU software—“copyleft” > > licenses. GNU software is distributed under the terms of these > > licenses. > > Sorry, but thatʼs simply untrue. Few GNU software packages are > under lax, non-copyleft licences, namely: ncurses, nana, speex. And > there might be a good reason for that [1].
I agree. It would say something like "We prefer to distribute under the terms of these licenses." This is also partly why I would recommend trying to merge points 1 (freedom), 2 (uphold freedom) and 4 (beyond software freedom). That makes it easier to explain what compromises we do and do not make to uphold user freedom. Cheers, Mark
