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Re: is this free?



> > > rationale :
> > >   4. Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software
> > >      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Raul Miller <moth@debian.org> writes:
> > I don't understand your point.

On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 06:31:03PM +0100, Peter Makholm wrote:
> Could the point be "Free software" as in FSF's free software
> definition versus "Free software" as in Debian Free Software
> Guidlines?

Not really, not when you consider that you were responding to:

> On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 09:51:06AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> > [And, as an aside, I can see the advantage of building a
> > free-software-developer oriented debian subset which consists of only
> > software which can be combined with GPLed software -- without any
> > restrictions beyond those allowed in the GPL.]

Here, I was suggesting that there would be value >>to developers<<
in having a debian subset which consisted of miscible software.

As it happens, both FSF and Debian distribute software which 
can't be combined with GPLed software to form a program.

-- 
Raul


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