On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 15:47 -0400, Marc Paré wrote: > Le 2011-06-19 06:57, Andrea Pescetti a écrit : > > Italo Vignoli wrote: > >> On 6/19/11 11:25 AM, Marc Paré wrote: > >>> Could you suggest another description that we could use that would be > >>> more appropriate for us? > >> I think that we should use "free software license, preferably copyleft" > > Just "free software license" linked to > > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html would exactly match with the > > RMS quote on http://www.documentfoundation.org/supporters/ and would > > include both free-permissive licenses (Apache) and free-copyleft > > licenses (LGPL). > > > > Anything else would be a new interpretation of the original statement > > and would exclude (or discourage) some free software from the extensions > > repository, but of course the Steering Committee is free to decide on > > the policy of the LibreOffice websites regardless of RMS's quotes from > > months ago. > > > > Regards, > > Andrea. > > > > > Thanks Andrea, > > This make more sense for now. > > I also agree that the SC should maybe take this up on a confcall for a > discussion as to their philosophy on use of "free software" or if they > decide to be even more specific "copy-left licensing".
Once again -1 to that idea. If there is to be a policy of this magnitude then the correct way is to have a vote of the members of the foundation, not the SC or the BOD when it exists, IMO. > I think this is > an important point to take up taking into consideration the latest > situation with questions to the ASF licensing issues. I also believe this is a very important situation but the greatest importance lies not with this specific singular policy, rather with how such a policy should be created. Which world view will we hold - Do we discuss and come to a group decision or do we lobby for the decision of a select (even if elected) few - this is not a causal question, and I thank you for bringing it up. Sincerely, Drew Jensen Document Foundation Member -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
