Re: Freedom 0: the utilitarian vs. the deontologist

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Svetlana Tkachenko said:

> > > The software freedom principles apply to software only, not to
> > > organisations.
> > Principles (of any kind) are only endorsed or condemned by people
> > and organizations.  An object or data (software) cannot reason
> > [...]
> That's what authorship is for. One program may have multiple
> authors, and one author may have multiple programs.

Authorship doesn't relieve copyright holders of free software duties.
There is no exclusion in free-sw.html for multiple authors of one
program, and no exclusion for authors that have multiple programs.

> The software freedom criteria correspond to the programs, not to the
> authors.

This has the same problem as your first claim.  You've used a language
shortcut to remove /the people/ involved from their responsibility and
duty to comply with and uphold a principle.

Consequently, you've not addressed the arguments in the post you're
replying.

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