Comment by _ZeD_
12 hours ago
>>> To be more specific, Open Source only promises the four fundamental freedoms (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition).
no, that is FSF's free software.
I'm sick of coming here and see "open source" as something with "moral values" - stealing it from the free software with "the magic" of conflating the two concepts.
Open source is just big software companies stealing from innumerable volunteers
If you look at the Open Source Definition, you see the four freedoms: https://opensource.org/osd
That’s unsurprising because the OSD is based on the Debian social contract, and Debian is a GNU distribution.
I'd invite you to read It's Time to Talk About Free Software Again [0] by one of the authors of both the DFSG and co-founder of the OSI.
[0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/02/msg01641.html
> Open source is just big software companies stealing from innumerable volunteers
Whether you think this is true or not, MIT and BSD licenses still guarantee the four freedoms.
only if you already have the source, the GPL also guarantees that you can get the source even if you don't have it.
I guess that's a pretty good point I never thought about. I've never come across software released under a permissive license that didn't either come with the source code, or host it somewhere convenient like github.
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