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> What Stallman calls Open Source is what the rest of the world calls Source Available That's absolutely wrong, as clearly explained in the article I linked to
by kaoD 4y ago
> What Stallman calls Open Source is what the rest of the world calls Source Available
That's absolutely wrong, as clearly explained in the article I linked to.
- jujube3 4y agoStallman appears to be considering "source available" licenses which forbid modification (and sometimes deployment) as "open source." This is not the definition of open source that everyone else uses. Certainly the OSI would not agree. There is more information here: https://opensource.org/osd https://opensource.org/osd RMS was around in the 1980s when "open source" was still being defined. So maybe he thinks he can define it however he likes. But to the rest of us it doesn't make sense, like saying "software that has a free software license, like GNU Emacs and Microsoft Word." One of those two doesn't belong in that sentence, and saying that I'm using my own custom definition of "free software" is a pretty shitty way to argue.