On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 01:28:18PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > The first question seems to be the more important one to this > discussion, since being able to use/compile/edit the software is more > fundamental than being able to redistribute it in modified form.
FWIW, I disagree with this prioritization. While some of the definitional freedoms may be dependent on others, none is less important than another. We do not have sufficient freedom if we are allowed to modify our freely-licensed software DVD players to ignore region coding, not pass the Macrovision signal, and skip FBI warnings commercials for other products manufactured or sold by the same company that produced a DVD in our posession, but forbidden from redistributing a "free" software DVD player that has these features available. -- G. Branden Robinson | "To be is to do" -- Plato Debian GNU/Linux | "To do is to be" -- Aristotle [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "Do be do be do" -- Sinatra http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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