Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Hyperbola: Other "Information for practical use" under a free license

[Ineiev]

On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 08:54:23AM +0200, Jean Louis wrote:
> 
> I think there is something seriously wrong with
> those people who designed "free culture" to be
> "free" to change other people's opinion
> statements.
> 
> How can a thought spoken by somebody at one point of
> time be modifiable in other point of time, by
> other person? It makes no sense as it abuses the
> author and proper attribution. It is not ethical.
> 
> That cannot be "free" in the sense of modifications.

In fact, many free software licenses have provisions
against misrepresentation of the origin: I can't modify
a program and say that it comes from the original authors
unchanged; this still doesn't make that program nonfree
in the sense of modifications.

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