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From: Alexander Berntsen <bernalex@g.o>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
Cc: Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@××××××××××.org>, gentoo-licenses@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-licenses] New license group FSF-NONFREE?
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 12:47:33
Message-Id: 5537985B.5020007@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-licenses] New license group FSF-NONFREE? by Ulrich Mueller
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4 On 22/04/15 09:08, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
5 > Are we talking about the same thing? Paul was referring to the Open
6 > Source Definition [1] which guarantees the same Four Freedoms as
7 > the Free Software Definition. Even the FSF acknowledges that the
8 > differences are rather small in practice [2], in spite of the
9 > different goals of both movements.
10 There are arguably not many differences in practice. But there are
11 some. Consider e.g. Open Source binaries. This is what's happening in
12 the world of cars, that ship with Open Source binaries for firmware.
13 This is in no way Free Software, yet it is recognised as Open Source
14 Software. There are other problems in practice as well.
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16 Alexander
17 bernalex@g.o
18 https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander
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