[Freegis-list] Re: GIS grant to help map cities worldwide

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 10:37:16AM -0700, Anselm Hook wrote:
> > Free Software is about Freedom, not costs.
> > Free Software is definitely assotiated with costs (as is any IT activity).
> > But you have the freedom to choose the type and timing for the costs.
> 
> In your definition of free do you include the GPL licenses or do you mean
> the more liberal use licenses such as BSD?
> 
> I just genuinely want a clarification - not trolling.  I'd like to
> understand a definition of free I suppose.

I mean Free Software as defined by the Free Software Foundation:
	http://www.fsfeurope.org/documents/freesoftware.en.html

This includes the GNU General Public License, BSD license and many others.

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