On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 1:01 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 19:43 +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> The free >> >> availability of binaries is never a requirement for any of the free and >> >> open source licenses. >> > This is what RedHat propaganda is telling you. >> >> I've done several papers in Law School specifically on software >> licensing and analysis of GPL and related licenses. Rahul's statement >> is correct -- no licenses require availability of binaries. >> >> Might be awkward or less than helpful, but it's comfortably within the >> rules of the license. > I am not doubting this: It's a different definition of free. It's one > case of the usual word-games with "freedom"-related words. > > To me, a product you can not get without having to pay for, doesn't > qualify as free - It's may be free in the sense of "intellectual > property", but this doesn't make it free in the "common man's sense". > I think common man's sense is not a logical item to deal with. The common man does not speak English but most likely a SouthEast Asian language, and they would probably use a word that means one of the 20 definitions of Free. The problem with the word Free as the was pointed out since its inception and the FSF acknowledged after a while was that it is an overloaded construct and has too many definitions. They should have gone with Libre or something as the French and other languages have words that mean exactly what they were wanting.. but English does not. > Ask your neighbor, if he would pay USD600 for a barrel of "free beer". > Actually I know people who do. They spend over 600 for the ingredients and brew their own in large vats. But my neighbors would not fall under the common man. > Ralf > > > > > > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
