[Legal] Fwd: Re: When Open Source is not Free

[Michael Shigorin]

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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:03:43 +0200
From: David Allouche <david/allouche.net>
To: sounder/lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: When Open Source is not Free

On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 00:47 -0700, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> Seen in wikipedia:
> 
> "The capitalized term "Open Source" is attached to a definition
> originally created in 1998 from Debian's rewrite of the GNU definition
> of "Free Software". As a result, nearly all Open Source programs are
> Free Software, but there are some exceptions."
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software
> 
> Does anyone knows of one of these exceptions mentioned in that quote on
> Wikipedia (of an open source program that isn't a Free Software)?

My favourite example is the APSL 1.x license.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#NonFreeSoftwareLicense

Though there might be other, more recent examples I'm not aware of. I'd
like to hear about them.

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