Re: Navigation Proposal

[Joakim Ziegler <joakim helixcode com>]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 10:29:54AM -0800, Mark Koopman wrote:
> Thom May wrote:

>> * Mark Koopman (mark websidestory com) wrote :
>> (loads of advertising)
>> Mark,
>> I appreciate your enthusiasm for you product, and can understand
>> it! I know i get excited when th company I work for releases a
>> great product.
>> However, it is _not_ appropriate to use a list in this manner
>> for advertising a product, nor is it possible for Gnome to
>> _ever_ use a proprietary product such as yours, until or unless
>> it is released with a DFSG compatible license (I'm using DFSG as it's
>> the best generic OSS definition, I think, see
>> http://www.debian.org/social_contract )
>> cheers

> that's fine, i understand.  i was offering a free version of the
> product, but that wasn't so clearly stated by myself from the beginning.

Free software is not a matter of price, but of freedom. That is, you would
have to release source under a DFSG-compliant license for it to be considered
free software.

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