-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 11 May 2002 05:37 am, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Saturday 11 May 2002 03.42, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
Free speech software requires full freedom, free beer software only requires it doesn't cost anything - so a sales-prohibative license would be a free beer license.
In that case you had better find yourself a better analogy. No definition of free speech in any part of the world allows you to sell other people's words.
In this case, free speech refers to the freedom of the licensee, not the freedom of the licensor (because the licensor virtually always has full freedoms). Surely you understand this, if you are familar with the free beer/free speech terms. Simply put, you do not have freedom concerning a piece of software if the only one that can include the software on CD and/or benefit from the software ends up being the original licensee. As I noted, such a license is almost identical to the Microsoft Windows CE Shared Source License. -Tim - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler tbutler@uninetsolutions.com Universal Networks http://www.uninet.info Christian Portal and Search Tool: http://www.faithtree.com Open Source Migration Guide: http://www.ofb.biz ============= "Christian Web Services Since 1996" ============== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE83SerK37Cns9gJ0gRAkZIAJ4nWdBgezymcWD/jPMbo3WJ7hGvBQCgh9ew d1LqA+biajqKgUaNGesT52g= =ZHE4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----