The Python Papers Edition One

[Carl Banks]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> "tleeuwenburg at gmail.com" <tleeuwenburg at gmail.com> writes:
> > Your email indicates a possible concern that we are doing something
> > untoward -- this was not at all intended, nor is it true.
>
> Although you might not have intended it, I feel it is still true.  You
> are misappropriating terminology ("free as in freedom") from the free
> software movement that means a work is licensed in a way that meets
> some specific criteria, that the license you're using does not meet.

"Free as in freedom" is not terminology; it's a way to differentiate
one of two different senses of the word "free".  "Specific criteria" is
some people's idea of what freedom is, but they're not the last word on
it.


Carl Banks