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On Thu, 11 May 1995, david d `zoo' zuhn wrote:

> //  Actually, you are very correct.  The "official" General Public License 
> //  copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation is a very specific license.
> //  
> //  Most of the "generic" GPLs (what is the "proper term" for "freely 
> //  redistributable" these days.  We used to call it copyleft, but that is 
> //  hard to explain to the newcomer.

>  Most people use a term like "freely redistributable software", or
> just "free software".  Copyleft is as specific as "GPL", and is not a
> generic term.

I personally like calling it free software, but we should be precise and 
call it freely distributable software.

I know DEC has been calling it "unsupported software" (4000 engineers 
backing it up is unsupported).

Thanks for the reccomendation.

	Rex Ballard
	Standard & Poor's/McGraw-Hill
	Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect
	the Management of the McGraw-Hill Companies.




From rballard@cnj.digex.net Fri May 12 00:02:52 1995