Re: Fuzzy machine learning framework v1.2

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Nomen Nescio writes on comp.lang.ada:
> Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>> Kulin wrote:
>>> "J-P. Rosen" wrote:
>>>> Le 28/05/2012 12:08, Dmitry A. Kazakov a Ècrit :
>>>>> This release is packaged for Windows, Fedora (yum) and Debian
>>>>> (apt). The software is public domain (licensed under GM GPL).
>>>> Just to be picky: if it's licensed under GMGPL, it's free software,
>>>> but it's not public domain.
>>> 
>>> Just to be picky,
>> 
>> In this case the discussion hinges on the word "free" and its uses
>> with software. Since there is no single definition of the word "free"
>
> Freedom means the absence of restriction, and it doesn't matter that
> serfs and GPL fanbois have participated in Stallman's obscene twisting
> of the concept for his nefarious purposes.

Stallman's only "nefarious purpose" is to prevent people from removing
freedom from free software.  Therefore, freedom is not the total absence
of restriction, it is the fact that the only restriction is "thou shalt
not make this software proprietary".  For this reason, the GPL defends
freedom much more vigorously than the BSD or MIT licenses do.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.