[Freegis-list] freegis entries ordered

[Felipe G. Nievinski]

Maybe a phrase would be enough to explain and make it clear.
My suggestion:

"You have the freedom to copy, study, change, and redistribute the Free GIS
Software and Free Geo-Data here indicated."


Just a thought.

Cheers,
Felipe.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefano Maffulli" <smaffulli at inwind.it>
To: <freegis-list at intevation.de>
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 10:49 AM
Subject: RE: [Freegis-list] freegis entries ordered


> Hi all,
>
> I think it would be very important to explain in a few paragraphs the aims
> and meaning of the FreeGIS initiative. This is because not so many people
> can already discern Free (as in Free speech) from Free (as in Free bier)
> <personal rant>Too bad English does not provide a unique way to identify
> these concepts</>
>
> In other words, FreeGIS is not as self explanatory as we may think. And I
> especially think that there is not enough knowledge of the whole Free
> Software movement in the public administration, in high school education,
> in SMEs. IMHO we still need to push the concept of Free as we mean it
(also
> since M$ started to attack the FS movement, read Stallman's response
> http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-03-02-004-20-OP-CY-MS).
>
> Regards
> Stefano Maffulli
>
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>
> >  -----Original Message-----
> >  From: freegis-list-admin at intevation.de
> >  [mailto:freegis-list-admin at intevation.de]On Behalf Of Jan-Oliver Wagner
> >  Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 12:34 PM
> >  To: freegis-list at intevation.de
> >  Subject: Re: [Freegis-list] freegis entries ordered
> >
> >
> >  On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:13:45PM -0300, Felipe G. Nievinski wrote:
> >  > It would be good to have a small paragraph in the main page (above
the
> >  > software entries) explaining the project (ala About FreeGIS page).
> >
> >  I am not sure whether we should reserve space on the enrtry
> >  page for something that should be self-explaining.
> >
> >  Perhaps a suitable sub title would make what you have in mind.
> >  Any idea, comment?
> >
> >  Jan
> >
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