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It's 'Free Software' under the definition of the Free Software Foundation. It's a term that's synomonys with open source


> synomonys with open source

No. All free software is open source, but not all open source software is free software. The conditions for calling software "open source" are weaker than those for "free software".


AFAIK nearly all OSI approved licences are also FSF approved, and vice versa. Do you have an example of something that is open source, but not free software?




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