El jue, 19-04-2007 a las 14:46 -0400, Kevin Dean escribió: > gNewSense focuses more on the FSF definition of Freedom > (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) to determine if content > (code, artwork or documentation) is Free.
Then GPL-Incompatible Free Software Licenses must be accepted since they are free software according to http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html > > For instance, there are binary blobs in the Linux kernel that is > licensed under the GPL, you can't reasonably modify these blobs, so it > violates freedoms 1 and 3 are violated, so gNewSense doesn't ship > them. > > The GFDL is a GPL incompatible license but gNewSense uses it without > the invariant sections, making the content itself Free. > > Hope that helped clear some things up. > > On 4/19/07, Romel Sandoval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the web page "Various Licenses and Comments about Them" [1] of FSF. > > They classify a license according to certain key questions: > > > > * Whether it qualifies as a free software license. > > * Whether it is a copyleft license. > > * Whether it is compatible with the GNU GPL. (This means you can > > combine a module which was released under that license with a > > GPL-covered module to make one larger program.) > > * Whether it causes any particular practical problems. > > > > My cuestion goes around two of these classifications: > > > > * GPL-Compatible Free Software Licenses > > * GPL-Incompatible Free Software Licenses > > > > gNewSense accept both or just GPL-Compatible licenses. My doubt arise > > since both are say to be Free Software. > > > > [1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gNewSense-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
