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by Jedd
505 days ago
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> And non-commercial licenses are not Open Source, period. This has been well established since the 1990s, both by the FSF and the OSI. That may be a bit misleading - the Free Software Foundation has long held strong opinions about the phrase 'open source'.[0] IIRC 'open source' became formalised by the OSI around 1998 - and despite the stated intent to clarify things where arguably no clarification was needed (a lot of people felt it was not too onerous to explain the beer and speech, libre and gratis, concepts to novices) it continues to reduce clarity. Viz. [0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....* |
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