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Open Source
Letter to Brein
At page 11 of your brochure ("What is allowed, and what is not") you write "It is not allowed to create a copy of a computer game or other software; not even for your own private use". A large number of software programs are distributed by their owners under a license that grants users the right to make and distribute an unlimited number of copies of the softwares. The signers of this letter are all developers of open source software or organisations (companies, non-profit foundations) who have a (financial) interest in this kind of software. With this statement you obstruct the legimitate goals of these owners and their organisations to develop software and distribute it as free software. We therefore stress the distrinction between software that may be copied freely, and software that, due to a licensing restrictions, may not be copied. We therefore request that you update your brochure and web site to the effect that the relevant paragraphs reflect the existing distinction between free (open source) and non-free software.