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From: | Bob Ham |
Subject: | Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Talking about non-free software on the list |
Date: | Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:57:49 +0000 |
User-agent: | Roundcube Webmail/0.7.2 |
On 2013-03-21 19:10, Simon Ward wrote:
Bob Ham <address@hidden> wrote:Suppose there are two pieces of software, A and B. If A depends on B and B is non-free then A is not free.Ish. As pointed out in another post, A itself could be considered to be free. However, the dependency on non-free software presents a problem. You cannot have a free system with that dependency.
Precisely. Here, I'm describing A as "not free" meaning its users have their freedom curtailed, as opposed to the licensing of A not allowing the four freedoms. I specifically avoided describing A as "non-free".
Perhaps a better phrasing would be "the users of A are not free". -- Bob Ham <address@hidden> for (;;) { ++pancakes; }
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