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>>>>> On Wed, 22 Apr 2015, Alexander Berntsen wrote: |
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> On 21/04/15 22:05, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: |
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>> Open source, as defined by the OSI is software the complies with |
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>> the OSD[1], which is fairly close to the DFSG (Debian Free |
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>> Software Guidelines). |
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>> You might be mixing terms; "Open Source" as defined by the FSF is |
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>> software which may be open, but you are not able to express your |
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>> four freedoms over. |
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> I don't understand what you are trying to say. I am saying that FREE |
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> SOFTWARE should refer to Free Software as in the FSF definition of |
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> Free Software, and that OSI-APPROVED (which is Open Source Software) |
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> thus does not belong in that licence group in the first place. |
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Are we talking about the same thing? Paul was referring to the |
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Open Source Definition [1] which guarantees the same Four Freedoms |
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as the Free Software Definition. Even the FSF acknowledges that |
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the differences are rather small in practice [2], in spite of the |
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different goals of both movements. |
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Ulrich |
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[1] http://opensource.org/osd |
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[2] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#OpenSource |
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