Re: Lawyer's evaluation

[Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:
>     Miles> Yeah, I agree -- in my mind, perhaps the _most_ important
>     Miles> (important to me, that is :-) thing to say while you've got
>     Miles> the user's attention, is `This is Free Software (as in
>     Miles> freedom), there's a lot more of it, and a great community
>     Miles> to back it up.  Wanna join?'
> 
> How about
>
> "The following General Public License states and protects additional
> rights, the rights that constitute true software freedom, that you
> possess."
> 
> OR
> 
> "The following General Public License states and protects additional
> rights, the rights that make GNU Emacs truly free software, that you
> possess."

No, those miss the point entirely.

  `Emacs is Free Software'

I.e. establish the term `Free Software' as a category.  Names are
important.  Muttering on about `true software freedom' and `truly free
software' seems to simply try and avoid doing this (not to mention
risking flamewars from BSD fans :-).

-Miles
-- 
`Cars give people wonderful freedom and increase their opportunities.
 But they also destroy the environment, to an extent so drastic that
 they kill all social life' (from _A Pattern Language_)