From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,577c9f9c0cdd76d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: sb463ba@d250-hrz.uni-duisburg.de (Georg Bauhaus) Subject: Re: Help help.. please.i am totaly new in ada programing Date: 1999/11/04 Message-ID: <7vs8bt$n03$2@news-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 544419371 References: <7vq4c5$7gn$1@news-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> Organization: Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet - Gesamthochschule Duisburg Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: tmoran@bix.com wrote: : >: If there is no word in : >: English that works, import or invent one (Stallmanized?) : >: but don't use a word that will cause greater misunderstanding. : > : >free source software? : That might suggest you can do anything you want with the source : code. Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I understand that "free software" : in Stallman's sense puts very definite restrictions on what you : can do with the source code. If you want to give it away. Yes, it should remain free software. Where free also refers to "software" as the subject, not only the user, I'd say. What else can you do to *ensure* that software stay as free as you intended it to be? -# Georg