www/philosophy free-open-overlap.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       15/01/05 12:34:00

Modified files:
        philosophy     : free-open-overlap.html 

Log message:
        Label the big region in the image.  Reduce the height of the bottom row.
        Expain better about how small the category O is.
        Delete the link to nonfree licenses.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/free-open-overlap.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.12&r2=1.13

Patches:
Index: free-open-overlap.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/free-open-overlap.html,v
retrieving revision 1.12
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -b -r1.12 -r1.13
--- free-open-overlap.html      12 Apr 2014 12:40:00 -0000      1.12
+++ free-open-overlap.html      5 Jan 2015 12:33:59 -0000       1.13
@@ -15,32 +15,41 @@
        /----------------------------------------------\
       / |                                            | \
      /  |                                            |  \
-        |                                            |   \
+    /   |                                            |   \
         |                                            |
-        |                                            |
-        |                                            |
-free    |                                            |
-        |                                            |
-        |                                            |    open source
+        |       Source under GNU *GPL, Apache,       |
+        |        original BSD, revised BSD,          |
+free    |        X11, expat, Python, MPL, etc.,      |
+        |        and executable not tivoized         |   open source
         |                                            |
         |                                            |
      \  |                                            |
       \ |                                            |
-       \----------------------------------------------
-        |                                        |   |   /
+      \ |                                            |   /
+       \----------------------------------------------  /
         |     tivoized (tyrant) devices          | O |  /
-        |                                        |   | /
         ----------------------------------------------/
 </code>
 </pre>
 
+<p>The programs that are open source and not free are a minuscule
+fraction of those that are free.  If the bottom row were drawn to
+scale, its text would have to be in a small font, perhaps too small to
+read.</p>
+
 <p>Tivoized or &ldquo;tyrant&rdquo; devices contain nonfree
 executables made from source code that is free.  As of 2013, many
 Android devices are tyrant, but some are not.</p>
 
+<!-- don't link here to the list of nonfree licenses.
+That gives the wrong idea, since most of those are not open source either. -->
+
 <p>&ldquo;O&rdquo; stands for &ldquo;other&rdquo; and refers to
-programs whose source is under 
-<a href="/licenses/license-list.html#NonFreeSoftwareLicenses">licenses which 
are open source but not free</a>.</p>
+programs whose source is under licenses which are open source but not
+free.  Several such licenses were written around 2000, and they were
+used to release a few programs.  It has been a long time since we
+heard of the actual use of such licenses, but we have no reason to
+believe it is zero.</p>
 
 </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
 <!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
@@ -82,7 +91,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2014/04/12 12:40:00 $
+$Date: 2015/01/05 12:33:59 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>