Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] EBCDIC support

[Bruno Haible]

Jack Woehr wrote:
> Open source ... and GNU libiconv is very much a part of that.

GNU libiconv is more than open source. It's Free Software [1]. While
everyone is allowed to fork it and make use of and redistribute the
forks, that is not the only freedom it intends to provide.

Rather,

  * It intends to give users in non-US countries the ability to use
    their native language in writing with the same ease as US people
    have - although this is technically more difficult (due to
    different encodings, multibyte encodings, combining characters,
    and so on). 
    => Freedom to use your own language rather than English.

  * It intends to give users the possibility to move texts (and,
    more generally, data) from any system to any other system.
    => Freedom to use the type of computer you want, without having
    your data locked-in.

Bruno

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html