[Fsf-friends] Re: RMS note to Vivaravicharam: GNU Swatantra

[Richard Stallman]

    Software licence fees could be  equated with kappam.

That sounds plausible to me.  If "kappam" is Tamil, is there an
equivalent Sanskrit term?

    So let  us call  Free software, GNU Swatantra (hindi version)  or
				    GNU Sudandiram (tamil version).

Before the FSF India was started, we thought of calling it
the Swatantra Software Sabha.  But someone argued that the term
had been appropriated by right-wing parties.  Others disagreed.
There was no consensus on using it, so we didn't.