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My intention wasn't meant to be misleading. I was under the impression that the FSF (& RMS) didn't consider even the BSD licenses to be Free Software because it

by pyre 12y ago

My intention wasn't meant to be misleading. I was under the impression that the FSF (& RMS) didn't consider even the BSD licenses to be Free Software because it was possible for proprietary software to incorporate it without giving back. If the FSF does consider the totally permissive licenses to be Free Software, I see that as a good thing. :)

dllthomas 12y ago
The FSF considers any software that respects "the Four Freedoms" (freedom to run for any purpose, freedom to study and modify, freedom to redistribute, and freedom to redistribute your changes) to be "Free Software". None of the freedoms in question require copyleft. Copyleft is a strategic choice to preserve these freedoms and make it easier to build software that does respect them compared to software that does not.