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Peru Passes Free Software Law - That's Free as in Free Speech (Groklaw)

Peru Passes Free Software Law - That's Free as in Free Speech (Groklaw)

Posted Sep 29, 2005 7:17 UTC (Thu) by Wol (guest, #4433)
In reply to: Peru Passes Free Software Law - That's Free as in Free Speech (Groklaw) by toufeeq_hussain
Parent article: Peru Passes Free Software Law - That's Free as in Free Speech (Groklaw)

Read the Groklaw article.

The consensus seems to be that it's not copyleft.

BSD is "Free as in I *can* pass on the freedom", GPL is "Free as in I *must* pass on the freedom". Those people who understand Spanish seem to be of the opinion that the BSD version is fine according to the law.

Cheers,
Wol


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