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Am Donnerstag, 3. April 2008 schrieb Bill Gatliff: > There are fundamental differences between the GPL and prototypical "open > source", OSI-approved licenses like BSD and MIT. Thus, the terms "Free > software" and "open source software" are not interchangeable. > > It's true that a subset of OSI-approved licenses are also licenses that > FSF defines as being Free, but it's only a subset. The other > OSI-approved "open source" licenses are clearly not Free, so you can't > be completely accurate when you say that Linux is "open source" software > and leave it at that. Again: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd http://www.opensource.org/licenses OSI-approved licenses usually also fit into the definition of Free Software. BSD and MIT licensed software is not copylefted but still Free as in "Free Software" or "Free Speech". The difference between "Free Software" and "Open Source" is not a licensing question. It's a question of politics. While the Free Software Foundation promotes the idea of Free Software for Free People in a Free World (you get the idea) the OSI simply tries to promote a software development model and sell it to the business world. The goals and approaches are very different but if you leave politics aside you end up with mostly the same licenses and the same software. Sorry for being a nitpicker, but "Linux is not Free, Linux is Open Source" is as wrong as saying "Linux is not Open Source, Linux is Free". regards, Andreas Micklei P.s. If you ever get the chance to hear a Talk by Richard Stallmann don't miss it. -- Andreas Micklei IVISTAR Kommunikationssysteme AG Ehrenbergstr. 19 / 10245 Berlin, Germany http://www.ivistar.de Handelsregister: Berlin Charlottenburg HRB 75173 Umsatzsteuer-ID: DE207795030 Vorstand: Dipl.-Inform. Heiko Schüler Aufsichtsrat: Dr.-Ing. Dirk Elias ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm FAQ: http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/mailinglists/faq.php Etiquette: http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/mailinglists/etiquette.php
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