Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Mission statement - request for comments

[Michael Dorrington]

Simon Ward wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:31:35PM +0100, Michael Dorrington wrote:
> > > Copyleft is a means of advancing free software and so comes under the
> > > free software umbrella.
> > {Free,Net,Open}BSD folks might disagree with that.
>
> I didn’t say it was the only means, or the right means (although I
> believe it is a fairly good, and currently necessary means).

Copyleft is the basis of the GNU project, GNU/Linux and the GNU GPL. It 
is very important. Its what differentiates it from the *BSD. Otherwise 
what is the difference? Copyleft means that free software can get 
stronger and not have to fight against itself. I don't like instances of 
free software that aren't copylefted as its not advancing free software 
and can be used against free software.

M.