Re: [TCLUG:17928] Freshmeat changes

["Kevin R. Bullock" <kbullock@ringworld.org>]

On Sat, 20 May 2000, Luke Francl wrote:

> It remains to be seen what this will turn into. Will they actually get it
> done, number one, and number two, what's "Free Software" to the FSF?
> Obviously their own GPL and LGPL'd stuff, but what about BSD stuff? Which
> is, of course, free by their definition. Basically, I wonder if it will
> only be GPL stuff, or if it will include software licensed under every
> license that RMS has "blessed"...

I've seen the preliminary version of this (it's been publicized on
debian-devel) and it looks like mostly GPL for now, but I think even RMS
has the sense to go with something like DFSG or OSD (Goddess forbid he
actually *agree* with ESR on something ;p ).

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Kevin R. Bullock