www/philosophy categories.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       19/02/20 20:55:39

Modified files:
        philosophy     : categories.html 

Log message:
        Clarify difference in extension between open souce software and free
        software.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/categories.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.101&r2=1.102

Patches:
Index: categories.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/categories.html,v
retrieving revision 1.101
retrieving revision 1.102
diff -u -b -r1.101 -r1.102
--- categories.html     15 Dec 2018 14:02:38 -0000      1.101
+++ categories.html     21 Feb 2019 01:55:38 -0000      1.102
@@ -90,8 +90,10 @@
        accept some licenses that we consider too restrictive, and
        there are free software licenses they have not
        accepted. However, the differences in extension of the
-       category are small: nearly all free software is open source,
-       and nearly all open source software is free.</p>
+       category are small: we know of only a few cases of source code that
+       is open source but not free.  In principle it could happen
+       that some free programs are rejected as open source, but
+       we don't know if that has ever happened.</p>
        <p>We prefer the term &ldquo;<a
         href="/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">free
        software</a>&rdquo; because it refers to
@@ -447,7 +449,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2018/12/15 14:02:38 $
+$Date: 2019/02/21 01:55:38 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>