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Free/libre software generally refers to copyleft. Open Source was coined as a competing term, more friendly to tivoization and propiatary use (eg: selling a hw
by e12e 6y ago
Free/libre software generally refers to copyleft. Open Source was coined as a competing term, more friendly to tivoization and propiatary use (eg: selling a hw box with bsd/mit code parts as a commercial, closed solution). An extension of Source Available.
Free/libre software is defined around the "four freedoms" for end-users (run, study/change, (re)distribute verbatim, distribute modifications).
Open Source is more concerned with the rights connected to the source code, and does not quite see the end-user (who runs the binary) as the same as the developer (who modifies and compiles the source).