On 2003/03/06 00:53:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Fringe Ryder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 04:48 PM 3/4/2003 -0500, Jonathan Saunders wrote: > >>To be Free Software, I think it has to be able to built using > >>Free tools and run in a Free environment. (That's my > >>interpretation, at any rate.) > > > Please do not try to redefine the term "Free Software" from the FSF meaning. > You may mean well, but your redefinition has problems: FS could never > have started.
Sorry. I guess I was confusing Free Software with GNU policies. GNU policies seem to indicate that GNU software must run on at least one free OS. The Free Software definition doesn't seem to have that in it: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html BTW, which part did I get wrong: "built using Free tools" or "run in a Free environment" or both? I don't see anything in the Free Software definition about either. So are we saying that Java programs and Palm OS programs released under the GPL are Free Software? Both require non-Free build tools. Neither set of build tools "taints" the program to make it non-Free (as far as I can see). Both require non-Free runtime environment. _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
