Sharing files between Ubuntu 6.06 and Windows XP Pro - best disk format to use

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, "Eric Dunbar" <eric.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Though, if you want to be picky, the GNU licence is not "free" either.
> It doesn't allow you to do whatever you wish with it -- there are
> restrictions placed upon your use and distribution.

That's a matter of perspective.

BSD licences, for example, seem to take a 'freedom is anarchy' approach. You 
are free do do whatever you want with material placed under those licences, 
including changing the licence to something completely proprietary. I could 
take FreeBSD, rename it, call it something else, and close the source off 
entirely.

The GNU licences, in contrast, are based on a belief that freedom should be 
protected, so that nobody can remove those same freedoms from others. It's 
somewhat akin to the philosophy that 'the price of freedom is eternal 
vigilance'.

A developer is entitled to ensure that his/her code remains free, not only in 
its first degree of separation, but throughout its lifespan, regardless of 
alterations, combinations and forks.


-- 
"Our findings show that, in almost all the cases, a transition toward open 
source reports of savings on the long term - costs of ownership of the 
software products." - UNU-MERIT, "Study on the Economic impact of open source 
software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and 
Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU", 2006
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