Comments on: Try Sparse http://www.mukund.org/2008/03/29/try-sparse/ Science is fun! Mon, 12 May 2008 04:44:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: muks http://www.mukund.org/2008/03/29/try-sparse/#comment-430 muks Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:51:33 +0000 http://www.mukund.org/2008/03/29/try-sparse/#comment-430 OSL 1.1 licensed software <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html" rel="nofollow">is free software</a> according to the Free Software Foundation. It doesn't matter to me what Debian thinks. Pretty much every project out there have their own ideals of what is entirely free and what is not. For the BSDs, even the GPL is not free enough. I trust FSF's reviews about free software licenses. But this is not to tell you what you should use :) Go with what works for you. The post was about the program anyway. OSL 1.1 licensed software is free software according to the Free Software Foundation.

It doesn’t matter to me what Debian thinks. Pretty much every project out there have their own ideals of what is entirely free and what is not. For the BSDs, even the GPL is not free enough. I trust FSF’s reviews about free software licenses. But this is not to tell you what you should use :) Go with what works for you.

The post was about the program anyway.

]]> By: pabs http://www.mukund.org/2008/03/29/try-sparse/#comment-429 pabs Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:28:27 +0000 http://www.mukund.org/2008/03/29/try-sparse/#comment-429 sparse is non-free according to Debian: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/non-free/s/sparse/current/copyright sparse is non-free according to Debian:

http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/non-free/s/sparse/current/copyright

]]>