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by jraph 601 days ago
You are confusing Free Software with copyleft.

Free Software licenses and Open source licenses are essentially the same (apart a few odd examples).

The difference between the free software movement and the open source software movement is essentially philosophical.
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pessimizer 601 days ago
> Free Software licenses and Open source licenses are essentially the same (apart a few odd examples).

Apart from every example of GPL software, which can't be used under the permissive terms of Open Source. The last person I replied to about this used the word "essentially" here, also. Is there a common source slogan for this belief?

Also, somebody should tell all of the people who keep rewriting GPL stuff in order to have an MIT version.

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ensignavenger 601 days ago
The GPL qualifies as Open Source, it meets all the requirements of the OSD and is on the OSI list of open source licenses.
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jraph 600 days ago
> Is there a common source slogan for this belief?

eh, no, but it's a quite common word to express that idea.

Also:

> for this belief?

> Also, somebody should tell all of the people

Would you consider you might be wrong here? We are several people telling you so.

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