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I'm sure what the poster meant was the Pico wasn't free/libre software. edit: > because Pico's earlier license was not a free software license, since distribu

by RMarcus 10y ago

I'm sure what the poster meant was the Pico wasn't free/libre software. edit: > because Pico's earlier license was not a free software license, since distribution of a modified version of the code was ambiguously forbidden.

nailer 10y ago
I meant open source, but same requirement to allow distribution of modified software appears in both the free software list of freedoms [1] and the open source definition [2]. 1. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html 2. https://opensource.org/osd-annotated https://opensource.org/osd-annotated