Hi, > And the same happens again: He does not condemn systemd, calling it Free > Software due to the GPL license. In my opinion systemd is violating one of > the 4 > freeedoms of GPL: Freedom 1 (as well as the *NIX and KISS philosophy) > * The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it > does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the > source code is a precondition for this.
Freedom 1 gives you the right to change the software for yourself, but not the right to force others to change their version. > It's really time for a re-definition of Free Software, not only basing such > definitions solely on the license at hand. It is also a matter of freedoms of > the users of software. Especially in view of that most Free Software nowadays > is > developed by commercial players, having their own agenda, actively alienating > their users (and non-paid, spare time developers). > Do you mean software, where the users can dictate the author what should be changed/made in its software? Martin -- GPG: 7FDE 7190 2F73 2C50 236E 403D CC13 48F1 E644 08EC
