Re: ARM opensource

[Erik Mouw <mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 05:32:56PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote:
> 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.

Clarification, I think I understand the confusion.

Bill seems to imply that free software is less restrictive than open
source software, Russell wants to point out that it isn't. The GPL is a
rather restrictive license, there are less restrictive open source
licenses like the BSD and MIT licenses.

Free software as defined by the FSF is covered by the GPL. The GPL is a
free (as in speech) software license approved by the OSI (Open Source
Initiative) as an open source license. However, that doesn't imply that
any OSI approved open source license is a free (as in speech) software
license.


Erik

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