On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 05:44:51AM +0200, ac via talk wrote:
On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 17:09:55 -0400 (EDT) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I found this article interesting and useful <https://opensource.com/business/16/11/open-source-not-free-software> This guy disagrees: <https://meshedinsights.com/2017/06/07/free-vs-open/>
imho, it is semantics / point of view..
my own pov (ymmv): Truly free and truly open is everything BSD licensed (including my own BSD released code/projects/software) my GPL etc licensed software is open, and free if you are only a user, but not so much free if you are a dev, etc. :)
The goal of GPL is the freedom of the source code, and hence the freedom of future users of the source code. It is not the freedom of someone to decide to deny others the same freedom, unlike the BSD license where the receiver is the one that is most free to do what they want. So yes the GPL gives each user less freedom in the interest of giving all users that same level of freedom in using the code. Different goal. -- Len Sorensen