[Fsfe-ie] Patent letter #3
Ciaran O'Riordan
ciaran at member.fsf.org
Thu Jan 22 15:29:23 CET 2004
Ian Clarke writes:
> Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
> > (is it Free Software, or proprietary?)
>
> Well, its a website, not software, so it doesn't need a license (does
> Google have a license?).
IFSO hasn't asked anyone to use google, or any other secret software, on
their own machines, or over a network.
We could also debate: Is it ok for ifso to point people to web pages
served by proprietary webservers? Is it ok to read email sent by a
proprietary mail server? But I think these questions are for pedants.
For anyone that's interested:
ifso.info is served by GNU/Linux + Apache, it's pages are created with
Emacs and sed over OpenSSH, and it's tested with Mozilla, Konqueror,
Lynx, Links, and W3M. The site pages will soon be hosted on sv.gnu.org,
using GNU/Linux, Apache, Savannah, CVS, and ViewCVS and will be pulled
from there by a regular cron job. Each page links to validator.w3.org,
which uses software released under an FSF approved license.
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Ciaran O'Riordan - http://www.compsoc.com/~coriordan/
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