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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: In praise of Ada Freeware
Date: 30 Jul 2001 20:37:15 -0700
Date: 2001-07-31T03:37:16+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0107301937.b5d22b1@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: zmk97.11948$ar1.37451@www.newsranger.com

Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message news:<zmk97.11948$ar1.37451@www.newsranger.com>...
> If that's the case, note
> that the BSD license actually qualifies as Free Software. The GNU 
> project refers to it as a "permissive non-copyleft free software 
> license". 


Well yes, of *course* the BSD is Free Software, anything *less*
restrictive than the GPL of course qualifies as Free Software. I
am surprised that anyone would think otherwise. Perhaps people
make the mistake of thinking Free Software = GPL, but that's quite
wrong, and even Microsoft does not make that mistake :-)



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-07-31  3:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-29 12:54 In praise of Ada Freeware Larry Kilgallen
2001-07-29 17:55 ` Florian Weimer
2001-07-29 19:33   ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-07-29 22:03     ` Robert Dewar
2001-07-30  2:36       ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-07-29 22:09     ` Robert Dewar
2001-07-30  2:39       ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-07-30 20:33         ` Robert Dewar
2001-07-30 23:30           ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-07-30 14:22       ` Ted Dennison
2001-07-30 16:26         ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-07-30 21:31           ` Ted Dennison
2001-07-30 23:34             ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-07-31  3:39               ` Robert Dewar
2001-07-31  9:40                 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-07-31 16:13               ` Ted Dennison
2001-07-31 16:34                 ` Ted Dennison
2001-07-31 19:32                   ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-07-31 17:31                 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-07-31  3:37             ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2001-07-31  2:58           ` Robert Dewar
2001-07-30  1:08 ` tmoran
2001-07-30  2:53   ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-07-30 15:30 ` Marin David Condic
2001-07-31  3:35   ` Robert Dewar
2001-07-31 13:58     ` Marin David Condic
2001-08-03 17:44 ` Dale Pontius
2001-08-04  2:15   ` Robert Dewar
2001-08-06 14:36     ` Ted Dennison
2001-08-27 18:59       ` Dale Pontius
2001-08-27 20:34         ` Preben Randhol
2001-08-28  4:55           ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
2001-08-28  6:41           ` Preben Randhol
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