Re: Fuzzy machine learning framework v1.2

[darkestkhan <darkestkhan@gmail.com>]

On Saturday, June 2, 2012 12:57:08 AM UTC, Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne) wrote:
> Le Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:25:50 +0200, darkestkhan <darkestkhan@gmail.com> a  
> écrit:
> 
> > On Tuesday, May 29, 2012 9:00:32 PM UTC, Kulin wrote:
> >>  [...]
> >> > And please stop with the name-calling. People are not liars simply
> >> > because they don't agree with your definition of what freedom is.
> >>
> >> Freedom is a word that is well-defined. [...]
> >
> > Are you sure about this?
> > define:freedom in google.com seems to disagree:
> > free・dom
> > Noun
> > 1. The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without  
> > hindrance or restraint.
> > 2. Absence of subjection to foreign domination or despotic government.
> >
> > Dictionary.reference.com lists 5 (!) definitions of freedom
> >
> > thefreedictionary.com lists 11 definitions, among them:
> > 3.a) Political independence.
> > 4. Exemption from an unpleasant or onerous condition.
> > 7. Frankness or boldness; lack of modesty or reserve.
> >
> > And as we can see they aren't semantically identical - freedom is not  
> > well defined word, so you can't say that Stallman is twisting the  
> > meaning of word (especially that one of the synonyms of freedom is...   
> > license)
> 
> On the contrary, you gave good reasons to ask Stallman to stop asserting  
> this word belong to him and the GPL, and ask him to acknowledge others are  
> not less legitimate to have their own claims on what “free” is.
> 
> -- 
> “Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.” [1]
> “Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [1]
> [1]: Epigrams on Programming — Alan J. — P. Yale University

You mean like here 
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#SoftwareLicenses ?

MIT and BSD are free software licenses according to FSF so I don't see how "this word belongs to GPL".