License Counseling

Greg Herlein gherlein at herlein.com
Tue Aug 28 04:44:50 UTC 2001


> To quote
>     http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
> ``You should also have the freedom to make modifications and use them
> privately in your own work or play, without even mentioning that they
> exist. If you do publish your changes, you should not be required to
> notify anyone in particular, or in any particular way.''
> 
> So it would not be free software by the FSF's definition.

I disagree.  The author stated that if you publish your changes
that you had to send them to him too.  I see no conflict with the
above in that area.  Unless I missed something, the original
author did not say anything about making your own private changes
available back to him.

Greg




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