On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Richard Stallman <r...@gnu.org> wrote:
> [ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider > [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, > [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. > > We should pick our fights, on the other hand, GitHub has released more > open source code and tools than the gitorious community. > > In connection with GNOME, please say "free/libre", not "open source". > > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html > for more explanation of the difference between free software and open > source. We're aware of the distinction between open source software and free/libre software. GitHub, the organization in question, is associated with the open source community and all its libraries are licensed under the non-copyleft 2-clause BSD license. > See also http://thebaffler.com/past/the_meme_hustler for > Evgeny Morozov's article on the same point. > > > -- > Dr Richard Stallman > President, Free Software Foundation > 51 Franklin St > Boston MA 02110 > USA > www.fsf.org www.gnu.org > Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. > Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call. > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-l...@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > -- Jasper
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