From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA11615 for caml-redistribution; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:57:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA32723 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 08:41:36 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from maxime.u-strasbg.fr (maxime.u-strasbg.fr [130.79.75.36]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA15837; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 08:41:35 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from luther@localhost) by maxime.u-strasbg.fr (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA18456; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 08:43:00 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19990422084300.B18434@maxime.u-strasbg.fr> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 08:43:00 +0200 From: Sven LUTHER To: Dave Berry , Pierre Weis , Brian Rogoff Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: licence issues Reply-To: luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr References: <199904191753.TAA26061@pauillac.inria.fr> <3.0.5.32.19990420102452.009b5ec0@mailhost.ed.harlequin.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2 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 Sender: weis 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