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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".