From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Smith Subject: Re: (Really) Free Software future Was: Re: Proposal to remove the off-topic, ... Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 12:13:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20191009065352.GU8197@protected.rcdrun.com> <1c9dc59c-0594-6921-73e8-b173e558b5c3@vapaa.xyz> <20191010023714.GK20430@protected.rcdrun.com> <6343757.2cZvDvYTfs@pc-713> <20191010061705.GH27628@protected.rcdrun.com> <20191010070606.GW27628@protected.rcdrun.com> Reply-To: psmith@gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: 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: svante.signell@gmail.com Cc: Guix-devel , gnu-system-discuss@gnu.org On Mon, 2019-10-14 at 12:07 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > Perhaps we should divide free software into two groups: 1) Really > free software where Freedom 1 applies and 2) not-so-free software > where Freedom 1 does no longer applies. > > Here gnome and systemd are in the second kind. Both GNOME and systemd are fully free software that support all four freedoms, including freedom 1. > Especially systemd, even if GPLed, is currently swallowing most of > free software excluding large groups of people to make contributions. Neither excluding upstream contributions nor "swallowing" other free software projects violate any of the four freedoms. As long as you are able to run the program, access the source code, modify the source code as you like, and distribute both the original and your modifications to others, then your freedoms are preserved.