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From: | Michael Dorrington |
Subject: | Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Mission statement - request for comments |
Date: | Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:31:35 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080509) |
Simon Ward wrote:
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:04:23PM +0100, Michael Dorrington wrote:I agree that copyleft also grates! :) Maybe better wording can make it flow. But copyleft is not "covered" by free software and it is an important additional concept.I feel “copyleft” grates more: It is covered by “free software” but is also very general—it doesn’t feel “right” after “in particular”.Copyleft is a means of advancing free software and so comes under the free software umbrella.
{Free,Net,Open}BSD folks might disagree with that. M.
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