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Re: tunefl and other web services
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Tim Roberts |
Subject: |
Re: tunefl and other web services |
Date: |
Thu, 5 Jul 2012 10:33:05 -0700 |
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Graham Percival wrote:
>
> Commercial services are ok, but non-Free software is not. The GNU
> coding standards are quite clear on this:
>
> "A GNU program should not recommend, promote, or grant legitimacy
> to the use of any non-free program. Proprietary software is a
> social and ethical problem, and our aim is to put an end to that
> problem."
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/References.html
The phrase "should not" merely means that one must feel guilty when
doing so. It is not a prohibition.
In other words, that's a philosophical statement, not a legal statement.
--
Tim Roberts, address@hidden
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
Re: tunefl and other web services,
Tim Roberts <=
- Re: tunefl and other web services, David Kastrup, 2012/07/05
- Re: tunefl and other web services, Valentin Villenave, 2012/07/05
- Re: tunefl and other web services, David Kastrup, 2012/07/05
- Re: tunefl and other web services, Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2012/07/06
- Re: tunefl and other web services, David Kastrup, 2012/07/06
- Re: tunefl and other web services, Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2012/07/06
- Re: tunefl and other web services, David Kastrup, 2012/07/07
- Re: tunefl and other web services, Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2012/07/07
- Re: tunefl and other web services, David Kastrup, 2012/07/07
- Re: tunefl and other web services, Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2012/07/07