Re: ARM opensource

[Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 06:16:15PM +0200, Andreas Micklei wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 3. April 2008 schrieb Russell King - ARM Linux:
> > On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 09:23:16AM -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote:
> > > Matej Haulik wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I am looking for opensource C libraries for ARM.Things like TCP/IP
> > > > stack, FAT12/16/32, RTOS, ....
> > > > Do you know some? Do you have some experience with these? Is there some
> > > > good source for this kind of stuff?
> > >
> > > They're part of a runtime library called "linux".  That library also
> > > includes a demonstration program called a "kernel".  :)
> > >
> > > 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.
> 
> Of course.
> 
> > Therefore, Linux is NOT free software.  It is Open Source software.
> 
> How do you come to this conclusion? The Free Software Foundation invented the 
> GPL specifically to promote their idea of Free Software long before the term 
> Open Source was coined.

Go back and read what Bill wrote, and _then_ respond to my reply, rather
than _just_ reading my reply.  Take a moment to think about what was
being said - which was "Linux is not open source, it's free software."

Now look up the definition of "free software" and now perform a set
operation on it removing "open source" from that definition - what are
you left with?

Something that is _not_ what Linux is.

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