On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 3:36 AM Florian Weimer wrote: > Is it necessary that an open source license must allow porting to > proprietary systems? I don't think so today. But based on what I > found out about the OpenMotif license, people actually thought that > back then. This surprises me. Has this changed?
If I am stuck on a proprietary platform because the available libre platforms do not support my hardware (or for other reasons), I don't think it is appropriate to disconnect me from the FLOSS world and force me to only use proprietary software on top of the proprietary platform. That would only *reduce* the amount of software freedom in the universe, not increase it. As I understand it, the system library exception is a way to work around the license incompatibility between copyleft projects and the proprietary platforms they might be able to run on, in order to *increase* the places Free Software can be used. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
