First small steps toward free GSM firmware

Bob Ham rah at settrans.net
Wed Oct 16 21:13:07 CEST 2013


On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 20:03 +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> Am 16.10.2013 um 19:31 schrieb Timo Juhani Lindfors:
> > Balint Szente <balint at szentedwg.ro> writes:

> >> What is not clear for me is that can a software be FSF/OSI "free" but
> >> illegal to use?
> 
> "Free" is a term only considering copyright. I.e. it is licenced under "copyleft".

This is incorrect.  Copyleft and software freedom are different
concepts.  For example, BSD code is free software but not copyleft.  The
FSF explicitly describes the BSD license as a free software license:

  'This is a lax, permissive non-copyleft free software license'

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OriginalBSD

-- 
Bob Ham <rah at settrans.net>

for (;;) { ++pancakes; }
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