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According to that site, Free Software (as defined by the FSF) is not Copyfree.

As far as I can tell, Copyfree is like the BSD license, except you can only restrict changes to the license text itself; the license itself may not be changed or added to, but everything else in the project may be used and changed in any way. So, effectively, it seems like a license where the license itself is copyrighted with all rights reserved, but the rest of the project is public domain.

So, just like BSD, anyone can take a Copyfree project proprietary, turning it non-free.

The GPL is as important today as ever.



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