A friend of mine emailed Stallman about creating FAN translations of
published works that have been locked up by exclusive privileges, (not
questioning the legality of it because obviously we know the answer to
that question even if I don't agree with how the law works), but
questioning the morality of it. And he actually replied. He said
creating derivatives of published works without permission is morally
ok, but not translations. Translations are not ok.
Of course this was 2012 and I couldn't give you exact quotes anymore,
and perhaps he has changed his position on this matter?
Stallman is a die-hard free software person and I have nothing less than
the utmost respect for that.
But unless I am mistaken, he is horrible on free culture and the freedom
to modify and republish published works, even though software IS a form
of culture!
On 25.04.2015 00:50, Ali Abdul Ghani wrote:
hi all
to day I find this article
http://onpon4.github.io/other/fsf-no-derivatives/
