[GNUz] Isn't Clark Connect non-Free?

[Rik Tindall]

Thanks Tim for clarifying this.

Timothy Musson wrote:

>  http://wiki.clarkconnect.com/wiki/index.php?title=GPL_License
>
>--->8---
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>So, ClarkConnect consists of Free (libre) software except for one
>component named Suva, which will be GPL'ed in version 4.0 of
>ClarkConnect. So, good news for version 4.0! :)
>
>Anyway! I brought it up because I think we're a Free Software user
>group. We are, right? So we should be pretty careful about what we
>encourage people to install.
>
>Tim
>  
>

Thoughts to add:

Yes, we are a Free Software user group. Which means understanding why 
the FS/F exists, to my mind. Which is, that no free unix-like O/S was 
guaranteed to result from AT&T/Berkeley's code licensing, as RMS saw it. 
So we have GNU, which doesn't change the fact that BSD has managed to 
survive as well, doggedly fitting the same purpose.

It is because GNU/LNX & *BSD are so interchangeable that it is 
productive to try to know both, and what is held in common or different 
constructionally. But more, because the context above explains most 
about why GNU/LuNiX is still an option for us today. (Linus's starting 
aim was to have a free unix-like O/S too.)

Yet a still wider view applies. As for RMS and Linus, the software we 
are building with allows us the freedom to build whatever, however, we 
so choose, like nothing else. It is this freedom (tracing back beyond 
free unix) that explains our ability and interest to explore new 
projects and formats in creative ways. So - as with the ndis wrapper 
thread - we are able to accelerate concrete taskwork, and inform it 
collectively towards maximum Freedom. This is good! Long may the 
cooperation last.

Thanks

PS I finally upgraded my desktop box today (not waiting till June + disk 
delay; really like Breezy after many tests, with its snappy install & 
Gnome; a few crashy progs & probs w/5.04 - now sick of and done with that :)

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