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From: "Tomáš Čech" <sleep_walker@gnu.org>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: An April 1 joke? Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add systemd.
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 02:06:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180405000609.GA9122@doom> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1522846191.3197.72.camel@gmail.com>

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Hello,

On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 02:49:51PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> ...
>
>And the same happens again: He does not condemn systemd, calling it Free
>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)
>      * The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it
>        does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the
>        source code is a precondition for this.
>
>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 freedoms of
>the users of software. Especially in view of that most Free Software nowadays is
>developed by commercial players, having their own agenda, actively alienating
>their users (and non-paid, spare time developers).

could please you explain me your point of view?

I can see systemd's source code published on github with the license
guaranteeing me that I can study it and fork it to change it.

Best regards,

S_W

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-04-05  0:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-02  9:42 An April 1 joke? Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add systemd Svante Signell
2018-04-02 10:15 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-04-02 10:19   ` Nils Gillmann
2018-04-02 14:38 ` Leo Famulari
2018-04-04 12:49   ` Svante Signell
2018-04-04 14:16     ` Martin Castillo
2018-04-04 15:04     ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-04-04 18:13     ` Mark H Weaver
2018-04-04 18:24     ` Mark H Weaver
2018-04-04 20:08       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-04-04 20:32       ` Nils Gillmann
2018-04-04 21:42         ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-04-05  0:06     ` Tomáš Čech [this message]
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2018-04-04 15:33 Svante Signell
2018-04-04 16:59 ` Thomas Sigurdsen

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