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by gonmf 3480 days ago
Open source != free software.
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The difference between open source and free software is mostly in the political camp the word comes from. Read the OSI definition of open source if you don't believe:

> https://opensource.org/osd-annotated

The reasons why "free software" people don't like the word "open source" are indeed political:

> https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....

For software for which the source code is available, but does not give the four freedoms:

> https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html#content

it is common to use the word "shared source" (originally devised by Microsoft):

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_source

Kernel driver of proprietary AMDGPU-PRO are licensed exactly same way as modules in mainline kernel. Most of them dual-licensed under MIT and GPL so BSD and other projects can use them.
But it is free software. It resides in the kernel tree: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-st...