From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Castillo Subject: Re: An April 1 joke? Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add systemd. Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 16:16:10 +0200 Message-ID: <7c639ea9-12da-6028-d31f-79361c7c67a7@uni-bremen.de> References: <1522662136.3259.35.camel@gmail.com> <20180402143822.GA26072@jasmine.lan> <1522846191.3197.72.camel@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49865) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f3jD5-0001zH-Kr for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2018 10:16:27 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f3jD1-0003XS-JQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2018 10:16:23 -0400 Received: from gabriel-vm-2.zfn.uni-bremen.de ([134.102.50.10]:37450 helo=smtp.uni-bremen.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f3jD1-0003TN-3s for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2018 10:16:19 -0400 Received: from [192.168.178.5] (ip4d173913.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de [77.23.57.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.uni-bremen.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7A77B206A3 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2018 16:16:10 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <1522846191.3197.72.camel@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-US List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi, > And the same happens again: He does not condemn systemd, calling it Fre= e > Software due to the GPL license. In my opinion systemd is violating one= of the 4 > freeedoms of GPL: Freedom 1 (as well as the *NIX and KISS philosophy) > =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0* The freedom to study how the prog= ram works, and change it so it > =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0does your computing as = you wish (freedom 1). Access to the > =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0source code is a precon= dition for this. Freedom 1 gives you the right to change the software for yourself, but not the right to force others to change their version. > It's really time for a re-definition of Free Software, not only basing = such > definitions solely on the license at hand. It is also a matter of freed= oms of > the users of software. Especially in view of that most Free Software no= wadays is > developed by commercial players, having their own agenda, actively alie= nating > their users (and non-paid, spare time developers). >=20 Do you mean software, where the users can dictate the author what should be changed/made in its software? Martin --=20 GPG: 7FDE 7190 2F73 2C50 236E 403D CC13 48F1 E644 08EC