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Perhaps you are not aware that the vast majority of open source software does qualify as Free Software by the FSF's definition. Certainly BSD-licensed software
by caf 15y ago
Perhaps you are not aware that the vast majority of open source software does qualify as Free Software by the FSF's definition. Certainly BSD-licensed software does.
- lightyrs 15y agoThe vast majority of tools I used to learn how to program were not Free Software as defined by RMS.
- paradoja 15y agoBut were OSS? An example, please?
- cube13 15y agoBSD as it currently is(the "new" BSD licenses from 1999 on), because that's GPL compatible. The original BSD license does not count as FOSS as far as the FSF is concerned.
- candeira 15y agoThe original BSD license was free too, it was just not GPL compatible. The FSF has always recommended against it, but they have always called it a Free Software license. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OriginalBSD http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OriginalBSD