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no, they recognize those licenses as compatible with the GPL, but not as free software https://www.fsf.org/ https://www.fsf.org/ "Free software means that the
by fsckboy 3y ago
no, they recognize those licenses as compatible with the GPL, but not as free software
https://www.fsf.org/ https://www.fsf.org/
"Free software means that the users have the freedom to run, edit, contribute to, and share the software."
those licenses allow derivatives which users cannot edit and contribute to thus they don't guarantee the 4 freedoms of free software.
- gpderetta 3y agoThat's literally contrary to what FSF says. Please read: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html . For example: Apache License, Version 2.0 This is a free software license, compatible with version 3 of the GNU GPL. Or: Expat License [this is the MIT license] This is a lax, permissive non-copyleft free software license, compatible with the GNU GPL. The fact that a license allows derivative work to take away the 4 freedoms don't make the license not a free software license. An end user in reception of a permissively licensed free software can make full use of the 4 freedoms.