Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 05:17:52 -0400 From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> To: gord@trick.fig.org Subject: Re: An open letter to the free software community Although the FIG license is a work in progress, not final, its current instantiation seems to provide less than enough freedom to make a program count as free software (or as Open Source software). There may be a role relating to the free software community for a license embodying the ideas you have in mind, which somewhat resemble what Aladdin is doing with Ghostscript. But, in order to prevent it from causing difficulties, you'd need to keep it in the background of what you do "for the free software community".