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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: In praise of Ada Freeware
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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 :-)