Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Announcing Gnomoradio
From: Frank Barknecht (fbar_AT_footils.org)
Date: Fri Oct 31 2003 - 21:05:37 EET
Hallo,
Daniel James hat gesagt: // Daniel James wrote:
> > > Ah - but you're using the 'free beer' sense in 'free
> > > distribution'.
> >
> > What makes you think that?
>
> Because you said "If the right is bound to giving money to the
> creator it is not a free good".
Yes, but I did talk about the "right", the right to speak freely, so
to say. A good is not a free (as in "libre", liberated, GNUish) good,
if distribution is only allowed when paying somebody.
If one would only be allowed to distribute Linux, if one did pay Linus
Thorwalds for every copy, then Linux would not only fail to be "free"
as in beer, it also would not be free as in "libre". The distribution
must be allowed without any charges, as soon as I have the good.
That's a central point in all libre software.
ciao
-- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
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