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Brad Knowles wrote:

>         He contrasts the "Open Source" movement with the "Free Software"
> movement, by saying that the former allows itself to co-exist in a
> common market in conjunction with commercial closed-source software,
> whereas the latter is working to actively eliminate all possibility
> of commercial closed-source software and to supplant it with *only*
> so-called "Free Software" (which cannot be taken closed-source).

I was referring to his definition of Free Software
<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html>. If this article was your
only introduction to Free Software, and did not know beforehand which
licenses he prefered, you would have to conclude by the basis of this
article that the BSD license is more free than the GPL.

The BSD license is indeed, and without argument by RMS, a Free Software
license.

David

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