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Comment by lucideer

2 years ago

> Open source is equivalent to free software in everything but definition

Is this a typo?

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andrewshadura  2 years ago

No, it isn’t. Open source and free software define the same thing in different ways. FSD defines the user’s freedoms, OSD defines what the license cannot forbid. The end result is the same though.

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