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Re: Three cheers for Eli!
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Marcin Borkowski |
Subject: |
Re: Three cheers for Eli! |
Date: |
Mon, 04 Jun 2018 10:30:09 +0200 |
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On 2018-06-04, at 07:09, Amin Bandali <address@hidden> wrote:
> Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Out of curiosity: why aren't GNU projects open-source? I know RMS
>> dislikes the term, but the source of GNU projects is available on the
>> Internet, so technically they should count, no?
>
> GNU projects are licensed under the GPL. Though GPL is an "OSI
> approved" license, and so technically an "open source" license,
> calling it that comes way short of conveying what it stands for.
>
> Instead of attempting to explain it myself, I'll refer you to
> this [0] article by RMS, called Why Open Source misses the point
> of Free Software, which explains it much better than I could.
I understand that, but Eli said
> There's no doubt open-source projects do
> exist, it's just that GNU projects are not among them.
I thought that GNU projects are rather in the intersection of "free
software" (in FSF sense) and open-source. That sentence confuses me.
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
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