Re: [Fsfe-uk] Re: ECF/ESF

[Stuart A Yeates]

MJ Ray wrote:
> On 2004-10-05 11:05:23 +0100 Stuart A Yeates 
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > We have written a document that attempts to explain to a 
> > non-programmer what benefit they might gain from having access to the 
> > source code of the programs they use. 
> > http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/whysource.xml
>
>
> Only two of those follow from mere access to the source code. All the 
> others require more copyright permissions, but only one seems to note 
> that fact. (I think one more of them might be granted by an amendment to 
> the copyright act, but I've not checked.)

Fair call.

How about I change:

A central tenet of the free and open source movement is that the source 
code should be available to all.

to

A central tenet of the free and open source movement is that the source 
code should be available for all to use, fix and redistribute.

?

cheers
stuart

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