i like this iniative too. as someone who regularly has to help people in education (I sell a lot of freedom laptops to people in education: both students and teachers) I get questions about education software a lot.
kudos to you for setting up this directory. On 30/03/2019 20:04, Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote: > Em 11/03/2019 20:18, Erin Glass escreveu: >> I'm writing to let you know about the 'Ethical Ed Tech >> <https://ethicaledtech.info/wiki/Meta:Welcome_to_Ethical_EdTech>' wiki and >> edit-a-thon on April 3 that may be of interest to the free software >> community. > > Nice initiative indeed. Awesome! :D > > As for the definitions of free/libre software and the other one, open > source, I think that the graph and explanation in [1] and [2] provide > insights on when those differ. The page in [2] does a wonderful job on > explaining in abstract what I'll say in this message, Besides, in the > field of *strategies* or *tactics* as to how to foster or advance > software freedom, the two groups also differ strongly, as can be seen in > various works such as [3][4][5][6]. Particularly, [6] explains why you > might see some people debating or advocating for stronger and auto > upgradable copyleft licenses such as AGPL-3.0-or-later for every kind of > work. > > Technically, free/libre software activists and open source proponents > can work together in a given project, but they'll mostly disagree in > regards to which aspects to priorize in the balance between freedom of > the software for the very-end-user vs. other characteristic (e.g.: ease > of use, graphical friendliness, speed, adoption by other people). > > In practice, Open Source Initiative's definition of open source seems to > enable works with digital handcuffs to fit in nicely to that category. > These handcuffs are ways that the copyright holders found to go beyond > the copyright law so as to take some already-given freedoms of the > software away from the very-end-user, measure also known for being > para-copyright[7]. Thus, the non-compliants can take a GPL-2.0-only work > and make derivated works that are distributed as cryptographically > signed execuables in smartphones/tablets and even in the engine control > units that decide how a car will develop/work while being driven, in > devices or vehicles that do signature checks to see if the cryptographic > keys and the binary/executable match. > > This is such a problem that there are people in the free/libre software > movement advocating for the use of strong and auto upgradable copyleft > licenses (the AGPL-3.0-or-later comes to mind). > > Trademarks (simply put: the registered logos and friendly names that > appear everywhere) are also accepted in the free/libre software movement > as long as the trademark *policies* don't take away the essential > freedoms of the software. Patents (which describe how to do something in > detail) are also accepted to some extent, with the advantage that the > GPL-3.0-or-later and AGPL-3.0-or-later provide better legal provisions > in favor of both the original copyright holders and the very-end-users[8]. > > > [1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html > [2] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-open-overlap.html > [3] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html > [4] > https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/when-free-software-isnt-practically-superior.html > [5] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/compromise.html > [6] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.html > [7] https://copyleft.org/guide/comprehensive-gpl-guidech10.html#x13-790009.5 > [8] > https://copyleft.org/guide/comprehensive-gpl-guidech10.html#x13-930009.14 > [9] https://copyleft.org/guide/comprehensive-gpl-guidech10.html#x13-830009.9 > > > _______________________________________________ > libreplanet-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss > -- Leah Rowe Libreboot developer and project founder. Use free software. Free as in freedom. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Use a free BIOS - https://libreboot.org/ Use a free operating system, GNU+Linux. Support computer user freedom https://sfconservancy.org/ https://fsf.org/ - https://gnu.org/ Minifree Ltd, trading as Ministry of Freedom | Registered in England, No. 9361826 | VAT No. GB202190462 Registered Office: 19 Hilton Road, Canvey Island, Essex SS8 9QA, UK | Web: https://minifree.org/
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