[OKFN-Spain] Saludos y "sw libre y precio"

Jue Sep 12 22:38:32 UTC 2013

Breve presentación: Hola a todos, acabo de seguir un rato de la junta
directiva, y llevo unos días leyendo la lista de correo, los temas me
resultan muy interesantes y tras el estupor inicial por el los primeros
mensajes del hilo " Gobierno Abierto: Gasto, inversión y retorno
<http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-sp/2013-September/001687.html>
  " me ha gustado como se ha reconducido, os felicito. En lo que pueda iré
aportando mi granito de arena.

Quería hacer una sugerencia sobre el tema "sw libre y precio":

Siempre me ha gustado la posición de la Free Software Foundation al
respecto, que se recoge aquí: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
Y que, entre otras cosas, dice:

   - “free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the
   concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free
   beer”
   - You may have paid money to get copies of free software, or you may
   have obtained copies at no charge. But regardless of how you got your
   copies, you always have the freedom to copy and change the software, even
   to sell copies.

FSF se desmarca del termino Open Source: "Another group has started using
the term “open source” to mean something close (but not identical) to “free
software”. We prefer the term “free software” because, once you have heard
that it refers to freedom rather than price, it calls to mind freedom."

Y aclara "The two terms describe almost the same category of software, but
they stand for views based on fundamentally different values. *Open source
is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.* For the
free software movement, free software is an ethical imperative, essential
respect for the users' freedom. By contrast, the philosophy of open source
considers issues in terms of how to make software “better”—in a practical
sense only. It says that nonfree software is an inferior solution to the
practical problem at hand. For the free software movement, however, nonfree
software is a social problem, and the solution is to stop using it and move
to free software." (ver
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html)

Leyendo la visión de OKF, me parece que el software utilizado para procesar
el "material" debe cumplir los mismos requisitos que el "material" (free
and open access, freedom to redistribute, freedom to reuse)

Creo que el paralelismo OFKN / FSF es claro:

*OFKN*
Free and open access to the material
Freedom to redistribute the material
Freedom to reuse the material
No restriction of the above based on who someone is (e.g. their
nationality) or their field of endeavour (e.g. commercial or non-commercial)

*FSF*
The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
 The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your
computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a
precondition for this.
The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom
2).
The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others
(freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to
benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for
this.

¿Tiene sentido decir que la posición de OFKN (Spain incluido) al respecto
"sw libre y precio" es la de la FSF? ¿Lo veis suficiente?

Un Saludo.
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