Re: Open source - Free software

[Alexander Terekhov]

Al Klein wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:15:55 -0400, Barry Margolin
> <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> >Open source software is not the same as free software (as I've mentioned
> >elsethread, open source is a subset of free).
> 
> If "free software" is software you're free to modify, 

According to the dotCommunist (see "Das dotCommunist Manifest") and GNU 
Reichsminister für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda Goebbels^WMoglen,
books, music, etc. is also "software" and must be "free as in freedom".

Now, but when it came to the question of freedom to modify or remove 
altogether Stallman's GNU Manifesto from Emacs documentation, the GNU
President invented another "free stuff" license:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.txt
(GNU Free Documentation License)

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regards,
alexander.