Re: [gNewSense-users] gNS accepted licenses

[Romel Sandoval]

El jue, 19-04-2007 a las 14:46 -0400, Kevin Dean escribió:
> gNewSense focuses more on the FSF definition of Freedom
> (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) to determine if content
> (code, artwork or documentation) is Free.

Then GPL-Incompatible Free Software Licenses must be accepted since they
are free software according to
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

> 
> For instance, there are binary blobs in the Linux kernel that is
> licensed under the GPL, you can't reasonably modify these blobs, so it
> violates freedoms 1 and 3 are violated, so gNewSense doesn't ship
> them.
> 
> The GFDL is a GPL incompatible license but gNewSense uses it without
> the invariant sections, making the content itself Free.
> 
> Hope that helped clear some things up.
> 
> On 4/19/07, Romel Sandoval <address@hidden> wrote:
> > In the web page "Various Licenses and Comments about Them" [1] of FSF.
> > They classify a license according to certain key questions:
> >
> >       * Whether it qualifies as a free software license.
> >       * Whether it is a copyleft license.
> >       * Whether it is compatible with the GNU GPL. (This means you can
> >         combine a module which was released under that license with a
> >         GPL-covered module to make one larger program.)
> >       * Whether it causes any particular practical problems.
> >
> > My cuestion goes around two of these classifications:
> >
> >   * GPL-Compatible Free Software Licenses
> >   * GPL-Incompatible Free Software Licenses
> >
> > gNewSense accept both or just GPL-Compatible licenses. My doubt arise
> > since both are say to be Free Software.
> >
> > [1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
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