On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 08:10, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 05:08:08AM -0500, Simon Law wrote: > > > Sure. Why don't we adopt RMS's? That would be my first vote. > > I always thought that the FSF's (and RMS's) Four Freedoms were > > always the basis of the DFSG. > > The Four Freedoms actually came well after the DFSG.
Not so! On January 6 of 1941, Franklin Delano Roosevelt said: In the future days which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. As I recall, Debian postdates 1941. -- -Dave Turner Stalk Me: 617 441 0668 "On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock." -Thomas Jefferson
