Re: ARM opensource

[Erik Mouw <mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 03:45:51PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 09:23:16AM -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote:
> > But Linux is Free Software, not open source.
> 
> Linux is licensed software, just like the Windows operating system is
> licensed software.  The license attached to Linux is an Open Source
> license, specifically a slightly modified GPL version 2, which must be
> abided by if you wish to keep using the software.  It is not a "do as
> you see fit anything goes" license.
> 
> Therefore, Linux is NOT free software.  It is Open Source software.

Bill is right, Linux is free software. Free as in speech, not free as
in beer. Lots of other languages have two different words for the
different meanings of free, English unfortunately not hence the
confusion.

You are of course right that Linux is licensed software, just like most
other open source software and that you have to abide the license.


Erik

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