[tex-live] EC license

Robin Fairbairns Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk
Sun Aug 30 11:23:06 CEST 2009


Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:

> What I meant is that it's ridiculous to assume that only Debian has
> the right to define the meaning of the word "freedom".

sure.  it's not what you originally said, but it's almost a truism, that.

however, their definition of "what constitutes free software" has become
the de facto yardstick against which we consider packages.  and it's not
just us; their definition has rather few fuzzy edges.

robin


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