[linux-audio-user] Announcing Gnomoradio

[iriXx]

Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> iriXx hat gesagt: // iriXx wrote:
> 
> 
>>
>>Guy Daniel CLOTILDE wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Daniel James wrote / a écrit:
>>>
>>>
>>>>In the case of music, if someone wanted to distribute a CC'd licenced 
>>>>piece commercially, paying the artist a fair cut, then all they'd 
>>>>have to do is contact the artist in the usual way and work out a 
>>>>deal. What's wrong with that?
>>>
>>>
>>>stepping inside... There's nothing wrong, but if it costs something 
>>>(again, nothing wrong) then it's not... free. I think that's what Frank 
>>>was pointing out.
>>
>>RMS would disagree.
> 
> 
> No. The "it" in "it is not free" here means the right to distribute
> something (also commercially), and if this costs something, "it" is not
> free in the RMS sense.

have you read RMS's essay on freedom and why freedom also includes the 
programmer's need to eat?

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