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[Savannah-hackers] [support #102394] Incorrect license for project pygmalion |
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Support Request #102394, was updated on Wed 09/03/2003 at 17:59
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Status: Closed
Priority: 5
Summary: Incorrect license for project pygmalion
By: mboeh
Date: Fri 09/05/2003 at 01:11
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I'd like to clarify this particular issue.
My project is directed towards non-technical users, and I
have had the good fortune of discovering a community of
users using a similar shareware product. The explanation for
not using the term 'free software' is, sadly, marketing, as
I'll explain.
Pygmalion is absolutely Free software. I am a supporter of
the FSF and GNU; I do not use any non-Free software on my
machines, period. I in fact have some rather strong
ideological issues with the Open Source Initiative,
basically identical to the ones the FSF has.
The problem is, the audience for my program is rather
computer-illiterate. The users of the analogous shareware
game are teenagers as well as older adults. These are not
hardcore gamers by any stretch, and they aren't particularly
interested in the politics of software. On one hand, this
suggests a previously untouched group of people to be
introduced to the Free Software movement; on the other hand,
their relative ignorance requires some discretion.
What I've been working towards here is a simple fact: the
shareware users I am targeting have a cultural prejudice
against so-called "freeware," which they characterize as
shoddy garbage worth less than what they paid for it. (This
is often true, although there are some inexplicably non-Free
freeware products that are very good.) Some basic market
surveys showed that they would be less likely to download
and use a game described as "Free Software" than one
described as "open source."
However, I did notice that I wrote "Open Source." The
capitalization, I recognize, suggests an affinity to OSI. It
was a purely reflexive typo and I've replaced it with
something more neutral.
My eventual goal is evangelism. I want to use Pygmalion to
prove to the less technically inclined that Free software
can be quality software, and to do that I have to use naming
legerdemain.
I hope this rather windy reply has explained my reasoning
sufficiently.
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By: yeupou
Date: Thu 09/04/2003 at 08:01
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Fixed.
I nothing something in your description I did not noticed
at first:
Note that Savannah supports projects of the Free Software
movement, not projects of the Open Source movement.
We are careful about ethical issues and insist on
producing software
that is not dependent on proprietary software.
While Open Source as defined by its founders means
something pretty
close to Free Software, it's frequently misunderstood.
For more
information, read
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html
We would prefer if you use the expression free software
instead of open source.
Regards,
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