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from the way you say this, it seems you confuse cost free with freedom, free software being about the latter, just implying the former.
by froh 1y ago
from the way you say this, it seems you confuse cost free with freedom, free software being about the latter, just implying the former.
- F3nd0 1y agoI was talking about freedom, hence the capitalisation to make that even clearer. The parent only talked about ‘open source’, which has a huge overlap with Free Software, but the two still have different formal definitions (not to mention the completely different ideas behind them). This still left the (admittedly unlikely) possibility of the software in question being Free (as in freedom), so I felt it worth pointing out it wasn’t that, either. A common way to talk about software which is explicitly both Free and open-source at the same time is to call it Free and Open-Source Software.
- Dylan16807 1y agoI think the confusion is that "even worse" sounds like something meaningful but any license split between those two would be quite a fine hair and people tend to treat them as the same. I mean, can you name any licenses that are one or the other but not both? And I explicitly don't mean whether one of OSI or FSF approved a license when the other rejected it, because sometimes they make that decision based on nitpicks and not because of differences in principles.