Hi, "Carlos O'Donell" <car...@systemhalted.org> skribis:
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 5:03 PM Mark Wielaard <m...@klomp.org> wrote: >> >> On Sat, 2019-10-26 at 02:35 +0300, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote: >> > Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: >> > > * GNU licenses uphold user freedom >> > > >> > > The GNU Project has designed software licenses to ensure developers >> > > cannot strip off user freedom from GNU software—“copyleft” >> > > licenses. GNU software is distributed under the terms of these >> > > licenses. >> > >> > Sorry, but thatʼs simply untrue. Few GNU software packages are >> > under lax, non-copyleft licences, namely: ncurses, nana, speex. And >> > there might be a good reason for that [1]. >> >> I agree. It would say something like "We prefer to distribute under the >> terms of these licenses." Oh yes, you’re right. >> This is also partly why I would recommend trying to merge points 1 >> (freedom), 2 (uphold freedom) and 4 (beyond software freedom). That >> makes it easier to explain what compromises we do and do not make to >> uphold user freedom. > > That sounds like a good compromise. Sure, works for me! Ludo’.
