On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 09:34, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> On 19 Dec 2001, Matt wrote:
>
> > Debian people believe in the GPL,
>
> Not all of them. Some find it overly restrictive and prefer to use BSD,
> Artistic license etc. Code I write usually goes under the Crowley Public
> License ("Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the license")
>
Good point. I just read over some of the licensing stuff over at
FreeBSD. Interesting..
> Definitely. But if you pardon me going back into politics for a minute,
> the difference between our community and communism is participation is not
<grin> My communism references were not based on fact nor on my actual
opinions. I was just ruffling some feathers on the list after things got
too political for my liking. The whole notion of "left," "right,"
"pink" and rhino bugs me, especially when in reference to open source.
Most people who get real mad about such things don't really understand
contemporary politics anyway. And you're absolutely right -- free and
community, not mandatory participation.
> > the restrictions of commercial software licenses
>
> Again not necessarily or to different extents. Some people would lie to
> see non-free software banned by law. Others (like me) have all kinds of
> non-free stuff installed and see no problem with it coexisting with free
> software.
Again, I agree with you. There is a place for commercial software.
However,generally speaking many of the licenses of major software
products go further than they have to (Microsoft, Adobe, Apple are all
guilty as charged.
> > and freedom of expression.
> > Nothing more (well, sort of) and nothing less.
>
> For some reason people have this stereotype of Debian and Debian people.
> As your mini-poll shows there is actually an immense amount of diversity
> out there.
My simple community sum-up was meant to highlight just that -- the
impossibility of defining Debian people, despite a set of relatively
uniform values that most (active) users of the OS share.
> Tenacious D.
Good call. :)
cheers,
Matt
