Support Request #102394, was updated on Wed 09/03/2003 at 17:59 You can respond by visiting: http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?func=detailsupport&support_id=102394&group_id=11
Category: None Status: Closed Priority: 5 Summary: Incorrect license for project pygmalion By: mboeh Date: Fri 09/05/2003 at 01:11 Logged In: YES user_id=2765 Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030726 Mozilla Firebird/0.6 I'd like to clarify this particular issue. My project is directed towards non-technical users, and I have had the good fortune of discovering a community of users using a similar shareware product. The explanation for not using the term 'free software' is, sadly, marketing, as I'll explain. Pygmalion is absolutely Free software. I am a supporter of the FSF and GNU; I do not use any non-Free software on my machines, period. I in fact have some rather strong ideological issues with the Open Source Initiative, basically identical to the ones the FSF has. The problem is, the audience for my program is rather computer-illiterate. The users of the analogous shareware game are teenagers as well as older adults. These are not hardcore gamers by any stretch, and they aren't particularly interested in the politics of software. On one hand, this suggests a previously untouched group of people to be introduced to the Free Software movement; on the other hand, their relative ignorance requires some discretion. What I've been working towards here is a simple fact: the shareware users I am targeting have a cultural prejudice against so-called "freeware," which they characterize as shoddy garbage worth less than what they paid for it. (This is often true, although there are some inexplicably non-Free freeware products that are very good.) Some basic market surveys showed that they would be less likely to download and use a game described as "Free Software" than one described as "open source." However, I did notice that I wrote "Open Source." The capitalization, I recognize, suggests an affinity to OSI. It was a purely reflexive typo and I've replaced it with something more neutral. My eventual goal is evangelism. I want to use Pygmalion to prove to the less technically inclined that Free software can be quality software, and to do that I have to use naming legerdemain. I hope this rather windy reply has explained my reasoning sufficiently. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- By: yeupou Date: Thu 09/04/2003 at 08:01 Logged In: YES user_id=1896 Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3; Linux 2.4.18-27.7.x.cern; i686) Fixed. I nothing something in your description I did not noticed at first: Note that Savannah supports projects of the Free Software movement, not projects of the Open Source movement. We are careful about ethical issues and insist on producing software that is not dependent on proprietary software. While Open Source as defined by its founders means something pretty close to Free Software, it's frequently misunderstood. For more information, read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html We would prefer if you use the expression free software instead of open source. Regards, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?func=detailsupport&support_id=102394&group_id=11 _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Savannah-hackers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-hackers