On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 17:33 -0400, Patrick wrote: > Hi Mark, Hi Ted > > Again this is your with us or against us. Regardless of the licence, if > the code ships with source code am I not somewhere up the ladder from > closed source, am I not?
No, you aren't. "Free software" is a term defined here: <https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html> It's a binary classification -- either you meet the four freedoms, or you don't. > Can you not come down from your Ivory tower and help me to find an > alternative to closed source software(which is looking better then when > I first posted) This list is not the appropriate form to do that. > I think it is better to give clean needles to drug addicts then to > spread HIV. Whether or not you agree with me should not be the issue, > only finding as many alternatives to closed source as possible, even if > that is a gradient. It's not so much about agreeing with you, it's about this list being an FSF forum. This is not the place to ask for advice on making non-free software licenses. I don't believe the FSF recognizes any "gradient" of freedom -- just licenses that meet their criteria for free software, and licenses that don't. -- Sent from Ubuntu
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