From: Sven LUTHER <luther@maxime.u-strasbg.fr>
To: Dave Berry <daveb@harlequin.co.uk>,
Pierre Weis <Pierre.Weis@inria.fr>, Brian Rogoff <bpr@best.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: licence issues
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 08:43:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990422084300.B18434@maxime.u-strasbg.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990420102452.009b5ec0@mailhost.ed.harlequin.co.uk>; from Dave Berry on Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 10:24:52AM +0100
On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 10:24:52AM +0100, Dave Berry wrote:
> At 19:53 19/04/99 +0200, Pierre Weis wrote:
> >You are right, but you know, nowadays, it's a kind of a religious war:
> >you must have been baptized under the GPL to be declared a ``free''
> >man (sorry, I meant software).
>
> I find the most useful definition is not "free software", but "Open Source
> software". This has a broader definition than just GNU. If you look at
which is just the debian free software guidelines (DFSG) from where it
originated, look also at :
http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
(Another case where proper credit is not always given to the right persons ...)
Friendly,
Sven LUTHER
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-04-22 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-04-16 9:54 Markus Mottl
1999-04-16 16:40 ` Xavier Leroy
1999-04-19 11:56 ` William Chesters
1999-04-20 8:23 ` Xavier Leroy
1999-04-21 19:16 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-04-21 20:08 ` Xavier Leroy
1999-04-21 21:12 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-04-23 9:29 ` Sven LUTHER
1999-04-22 6:40 ` Sven LUTHER
1999-04-19 13:22 ` Sven LUTHER
1999-04-16 16:41 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-04-19 11:55 ` Michel Mauny
1999-04-19 17:53 ` Pierre Weis
1999-04-20 9:24 ` Dave Berry
1999-04-22 6:43 ` Sven LUTHER [this message]
1999-04-22 9:20 ` Dave Berry
1999-04-21 9:38 ` Sven LUTHER
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