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> This is what people mean when they say Stallman is trying to redefine "free." I don't think so. I usually hear this argument from weak free license advocates
by jordigh 10y ago
> This is what people mean when they say Stallman is trying to redefine "free."
I don't think so. I usually hear this argument from weak free license advocates who specifically object to the GPL, not to calling free software "free". Even anti-GPL advocates like OpenBSD and FreeBSD call their software free, because they're both older than the term "open source" and because they think they're free-er than the GPL, and they really do mean "unfettered" when they say "free".
Everyone knows that "free" has two meanings, and free software isn't even a term that Stallman coined. It was called that before he came along, because there was no other name for open source. He just insisted on it.