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[News] Licensing Question: Can Free Software be 'Less Strict' Than Open Source?

  • Subject: [News] Licensing Question: Can Free Software be 'Less Strict' Than Open Source?
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:41:40 +0100
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Free Software but not Open Source

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| It is possible for software to be Free Software 
| (in the sense of GPL version 2 compatible), and 
| yet not satisfy the requirements of the Open 
| Source Initiative for being an Open Source 
| license. This is an obscure corner case in the 
| GPL, because people usually (not always) mean Free 
| Software when they say âOpen Sourceâ â stressing a 
| technical detail that is a prerequisite for 
| Freedom over Freedom itself.
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http://blogs.fsfe.org/adridg/?p=369


Recent:

That Old GNU Thing: Licensing

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| It's plain, though, that open licenses are both thriving and spreading, and
| this report offers a useful snapshot of just far we have come from the
| trailblazing GNU GPL.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2472&blogid=14
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