Re:Microsoft Becomes Sponsor of Open Source Initiative
by jordigh on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @10:18AM
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> absolutely includes the so called viral provisions of licenses such as the GPL.
No, no it does not and rms has very specifically said that free software doesn't need to be copyleft. They even have a diagram which explicitly includes permissive licenses in the free category:
Your definition of freedom isn't different than the FSF's. You perhaps just disagree on what is necessary to safeguard that freedom and you disagree that proprietary software is unethical.
No, no it does not and rms has very specifically said that free software doesn't need to be copyleft. They even have a diagram which explicitly includes permissive licenses in the free category:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.en.html
Your definition of freedom isn't different than the FSF's. You perhaps just disagree on what is necessary to safeguard that freedom and you disagree that proprietary software is unethical.