From bash-bug Sun Sep 17 19:10:21 2017 From: Chet Ramey Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 19:10:21 +0000 To: bash-bug Subject: Re: Question Message-Id: <12d75b39-f5fe-7b6d-57f5-e2c8707cb595 () case ! edu> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=bash-bug&m=164300510648090 On 9/16/17 11:16 PM, Robert Elz wrote: > Now to the philosophical ... I agree with the aims of free software, but > I believe that should be interpreted correctly - that is, if software is > free, it should impose no restrictions at all upon is recipients, which > includes hidden "you should reciprocate and make your software free too" In this case, "correctly" is doing a lot of work. It would be more accurate to say "it should be interpreted in the same way that I do." There's nothing wrong with you having your interpretation. Other people, including the FSF, have a definition that is, in their view, more user- centric (by which I mean they consider freedoms you, as a user of GNU software, have to pass onto your users). Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/