-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/08 19:09, s. keeling wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:04:46AM +0200, Ivan Savcic wrote: >>> AFAIK, RMS considers only one distribution to be really and truly free >>> -- it's the Gentoo based Ututo[1]. He talked about this in his talk he >>> held in Belgrade, Serbia. >> I have a problem with this. Debian, in it's default install is almost >> assuredly GNU free. And it has the additional freedom of allowing the >> user to choose to use non-free software within the structure of its >> packaging system. IMO that is more free than preventing people from >> using the software they want. > > I have the same problem with it. > > This is the best thing I've seen in this thread. The GPL applies to > developers and distributors who want to use free software in their > productions, as in re-using other's code. > > It does not apply to users. The whole intent of the GPL is to free > users to be able to use their stuff. Stock Debian is pure GPL. > Debian is not to blame if its user slurps from debian-multimedia. > When/if they morph into devs or distribs, then they need to consider > the GPL, not before.
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