Re: Free Software criteria -- about "Software distributions"

[Davi Leal]

Richard Stallman wrote:
>     They do not speak explicitly,  however the _fact_ is that
>
>       "weaknesses or faults in free programs could be someone's motive
>        to use a non-free program"
>
> You have proposed a strange interpretation of the words.  The
> conclusion that you come to shows that interpretation is wrong.  I
> don't think we need to worry much about strange interpretations that
> reject themselves.




> If we can make the wording a clearer on this point, without making a
> lot of work for ourselves or opening up other problems, then let's do so.
> But we should not treat this the way we would treat a bug in a program.


    "promoting or encouraging the use of non-free software"


The 'promote' and 'encourage' words are synonyms. Remove the 'encourage' word. 
The result criterion is absolutely equivalent:

    "promoting the use of non-free software"