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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
Cc: jonas@bernoul.li, mats.lidell@cag.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:49:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1dbytU-0002vg-RU@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y3r8mh7m.fsf@floss> (message from Karl Fogel on Fri, 28 Jul 2017 15:36:45 -0500)

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  > This FAQ item at the OSI explains this in more detail:
  > https://opensource.org/faq#free-software.

What that says is not correct: open source and free software are not
equal as subsets of software.  There are a few programs whose source
code qualifies as open but not free.

In addition, tivoized executables made from free software source code
are nonfree even if the source code is free.  Many Android devices
contain tivoized executables of Linux, for instance.

https://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
explains all of this carefully.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-07-31  0:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-10 14:29 Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages Jonas Bernoulli
2017-07-12 12:49 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2017-07-13 12:23   ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-14 19:44     ` Jonas Bernoulli
2017-07-15 19:38       ` Mats Lidell
2017-07-16  1:55       ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-16  2:20         ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-16 15:41         ` Jonas Bernoulli
2017-07-16 17:37           ` Mats Lidell
2017-07-16 22:17             ` Mats Lidell
2017-07-17 12:00             ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-17 12:00             ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-17 12:00             ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-17 21:23               ` Mats Lidell
2017-07-18 14:16                 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-23 22:14                   ` Mats Lidell
2017-07-27 22:50                     ` Mats Lidell
2017-07-28 17:16                       ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-29 12:19                         ` Mats Lidell
2017-07-29 19:09                           ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-29 19:54                             ` Mats Lidell
2017-07-29 22:49                             ` Ivan Andrus
2017-07-31  0:46                               ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-31 17:48                                 ` Achim Gratz
2017-08-08  1:02                                 ` Ivan Andrus
2017-07-31  0:51                     ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-01 21:46                       ` Mats Lidell
2017-08-02  1:54                         ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-03 19:42                           ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-03 19:58                             ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-28 10:52               ` Jonas Bernoulli
2017-07-28 17:16                 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-28 17:47                   ` Jonas Bernoulli
2017-07-28 17:16                 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-29 13:48                   ` Jonas Bernoulli
2017-07-29 19:10                     ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-29 19:10                     ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-28 20:36                 ` Karl Fogel
2017-07-29 19:07                   ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-31  0:49                   ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2017-07-17 11:59           ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-28 11:17             ` Jonas Bernoulli
2017-07-29 14:54               ` Mats Lidell
2017-07-29 19:09                 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-29 19:06               ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-29 19:06               ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-29 20:07                 ` Mats Lidell
2017-07-30  6:28                   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-31 16:03                     ` Jonas Bernoulli
2017-07-31 17:03                       ` Jonas Bernoulli
2017-08-03  9:35                 ` Mats Lidell
2017-08-03 19:50                   ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-13 12:23   ` Richard Stallman

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