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"Free software" and "open source" are somewhat famously not quite the same thing.
by andrewflnr 4y ago
"Free software" and "open source" are somewhat famously not quite the same thing.
- jraph 4y agoThe free software definition [fsd] and the open source definition [osd] are different in wording and spirit, but Free Software and Open Source designate largely the same set of licenses, save for a few odd ones like the Sybase Open Watcom Public License which is considered as a non-free software license by the GNU project [1] / FSF [2] and most Linux distributions (including Debian, which uses the DFSG [3], which is essentially the same text as the Open Source Definition) but as an Open Source license by the Open Source Initiative [4]. Free software does not mean free as in beer. The confusion caused by the word "free" in English is unfortunate but the world is not perfect. [fsd] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html.en https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html.en [osd] https://opensource.org/osd https://opensource.org/osd [1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#Watcom https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#Watcom [2] https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:Watcom-1.0 https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:Watcom-1.0 [3] https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines [4] https://opensource.org/licenses/Watcom-1.0 https://opensource.org/licenses/Watcom-1.0