Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Talking about non-free software on the list

[Bob Ham]

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".


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Bob Ham <address@hidden>

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