-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 01:09:03PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Le nonidi 9 vendémiaire, an CCXXIV, Reco a écrit : > > 'Open-source' by itself does not imply that the software is free (as in > > libre). > > > > A fine example of such software is RAR archiver. > > They give you the source - https://packages.debian.org/stretch/rar > > They forbid you to change it. They require you to buy the software after > > a certain time of usage, or uninstall it. > > They rightfully put RAR into non-free in Debian, because the software is > > 'non-free' indeed. But - it's definitely 'open-source'. > > Apparently, you are mistaken about what "Open Source" means. "Open Source" > is a trademark, it corresponds to a precise definition published by the Open > Source Initiative. The difference between Open Source and Libre software is > very minute, almost as minute as the difference between the various > definitions of Libre software (four essential freedoms according to the FSF, > DFSG, etc.).
The letter of the law my dear Shylock, the letter. But in spirit, Open Source and Free Software couldn't be more different. The one is about a more efficient software production model, the other about the user's rights. But such "spirit" things are difficult to grasp at times :-) In practice, and technically, most Open Source software is Free, and all Free Software is Open Source. But watch those folks in a corporate environment awkwardly avoiding the F word -- or read Bruce Perens, one of those who coined Open Source writing that in hindsight it may have been a mistake to realize that the people behind those flavors are quite different. - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlYLyZYACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYyDQCfUOA55aLpNqITKghISC3tucxr 0aIAnROHXcUZjcGWTa5kl20urijq4lgG =4rMe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
