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Re: (re-)evaluation of notabug.org


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: (re-)evaluation of notabug.org
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 00:55:45 -0400

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  > So, in practice OSI-approved is not strictly adequate but it appears
  > that 100% of the actual licenses ever used on a site like Sourceforge
  > are all truly free software licenses.

  > How much do we care about this distinction?

In principle:
our criteria are about what the repo does and says -- not about how users
use it in practice.

In practice:
we can't evaluate a repo based on what its current set of packages actually do.
That could change tomorrow.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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