2009/3/9 Alfred M. Szmidt ams@gnu.org:
The OSI disagrees with this freedom, and have decided to list a license that is not a free software license amongst its approved licenses. I fail to see what is historically inaccureate, or factually incorrect. The OSI has listed, and lists licenses that do not adher to the four freedoms of software, the only conclusion is that they do not care about software freedom.
Similarly, the Debian Free Software Guidelines disallow the GFDL. The FSF continues to advocate the GFDL. Therefore the FSF does not care about software freedom.
The fallacy in both cases is going beyond "black and white thinking" to using special definitions of the words "black" and "white".
The FSF and OSI have different set-out goals, but that does not mean the FSF owns specific English-language terms.
- d.