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[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 9 Oct 2001 12:21:11 +0100, Marck D Pearlstone said:

> When Werner said it was *not free*, that is a fallacious statement
> that must be corrected.

Everybody in the Free Software community as well as in the Open Source
community has a clear undertstanding of the term "free" - in the
context of software it is used as in "free speech".

Well, let's see what WordNet (linguistic tool) has to say about free
(http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/):

| The noun free has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
|                                           
| 1. free, free people -- (people who are free; "the home of the free
|    and the brave")
| 
| The adj free has 8 senses (first 5 from tagged texts)
|                                             
| 1. (38) free -- (able to act at will; not hampered; not under
|         compulsion or restraint; "free enterprise"; "a free port"; "a
|         free country"; "I have an hour free"; "free will"; "free of
|         racism"; "feel free to stay as long as you wish"; "a free
|         choice")
| 
| 2. (5) free -- ((chemistry and physics) unconstrained or not
|        chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of
|        relatively unrestricted motion; "free expansion"; "free
|        oxygen"; "a free electron")
| 
| 3. (3) complimentary, costless, free, gratis, gratuitous -- (costing
|        nothing; "complimentary tickets")
| 
| 4. (3) free -- (not occupied or in use; "a free locker"; "a free lane")
| 
| 5. (1) detached, free -- (not fixed in position; "the detached shutter
|        fell on him"; "he pulled his arm free and ran")
| 
| 6. free -- (not held in servitude; "after the Civil War he was a free
|    man")
| 
| 7. spare, free -- (not taken up by scheduled activities; "a free hour
|    between classes"; "spare time on my hands")
| 
| 8. free, loose, liberal -- (not literal; "a loose interpretation of
|    what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem")
| 

And you really want to claim that the "GPL world" has stolen the word
"free" and given it whole new meaning?  Tssss.

-- 
Werner Koch        Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur
g10 Code GmbH      et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est.
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