[Gllug] Linux To MS Networking

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Sat, 2001-12-08 at 15:08, Pete Ryland wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:00:47AM +0000, James.Rocks at equant.com wrote:
 
> I think he was trying to distinguish between the two definitions of free.
> In the words of RMS (Richard Stallman, of GNU) there's free as in free
> speech, and then there's free as in free beer.  The FSF (Free Software
> Foundation) is all about free software of the free speech variety, i.e.
> freely distribute and modify.  You can still charge money for a cd of free
> software.  However, some software is "closed source" (opposite of open
> source, a term coigned by Eric Raymond I think, of OSI) but cost free as in
> free beer.  Although, I was under the impression that amanda was indeed free
> (as in speech).

Amanda is under a license that's very similar to the BSD licence, with
advertising clause. You can basically do what you like with it, as long
as you preserve the University of Maryland's copyright notice. I'm
pretty sure it's DFSG compliant, and thus free (as in speech).

Mike.


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